relative
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Nor am I burdened by the reasons young people often start conversations with relative strangers online or in person: to network, find a date or get advice.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
Semiconductors and hardware have outperformed during the rally, they say, with semiconductors hitting a new relative strength high and hardware trading near a two-year high, even as software remains weak.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026
In other words, the fund aims to more or less match the sector-by-sector makeup of the U.S. stock market, but within those sectors skews toward stocks that look cheap relative to their industry peers.
From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026
This shift alters how the atoms interact with one another through dipolar exchange, which depends on their relative angles.
From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026
And it is not the relative insubstantiality of her clothing that causes Marco to stare, but the tattoo that snakes across her skin.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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Vocabulary lists containing relative
Hatchet
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Measurement and Data, List 1
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