relative
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Waymo said in a blog post that the accident demonstrated the relative safety of a computer-driven vehicle, adding that a human in the same situation would have made contact at 14 mph.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
He's now worked out that it is a close relative of the ash die-back fungus that has killed up to 80 million ash trees in Britain.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
The material is made by stacking two sheets of carbon and rotating one slightly relative to the other.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2026
Blue Origin’s rocket explosion should focus minds on the relative risks of the hottest market themes.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
It seemed to him ‘as something divine that men could know the motions of the stars so accurately that they could long before foretell their places and relative positions’.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Vocabulary lists containing relative
Hatchet
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Measurement and Data, List 1
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