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relative

[rel-uh-tiv] / ˈrɛl ə tɪv /




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Additionally, Wise’s high-quality infrastructure, price-cutting strategy and relative scale advantage should help the company to reduce its costs and prices to a level that its competitors will struggle to match, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

After the wedding, Kayley was supposed to go to Turkey on her honeymoon, and stay in a flat owned by a relative of her former fiancé.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Figure 2 shows how a worker’s claiming age affects their benefit relative to the amount available at the full retirement age of 67.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

Human metabolomic data showed the most pronounced relative decline in phosphatidylcholine levels among women around the time of menopause.

From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026

I could get identities for the police, learn who to go after for damages, and maybe even find out what their relative had been looking for.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda




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