relative

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Usually it was your management record, and your relative success with the respective budgets you'd been given, that would seal the deal.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Children also have higher respiratory rates than adults, as well as larger lung surface area relative to their body size, resulting in higher doses of pollution per breath.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Futures markets have implied 40% price increases through the end of the year, relative to January.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

In the end, Mr. Scorsese opted for the relative unknowns Ray Liotta and Lorraine Bracco.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

There is a sense in which it is acceptable to describe the Earth as the centre of the Universe, and to make all measurements relative to the Earth.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin