relative
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In another unexpected result, the team identified DNA from Pterocarya, a relative of walnut believed to have vanished from north-western Europe about 400,000 years ago.
From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026
The index is derived from how surveyed residents rate their satisfaction in nine quality-of-life categories and about 40 sub-categories, while also rating the relative importance of each measure.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
In turn, Germany was pushed to the edge of starvation, despite its relative food self-sufficiency, because Britain’s counter-blockade worsened the domestic fact that horses and farmers were sent from grainfields to the battlefields.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Benefits can be reduced by as much as 30% at age 62 relative to full retirement age, and even more compared with age 70.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
Other tempo markings are verbal descriptions which are more relative and subjective.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
Vocabulary lists containing relative
Hatchet
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Measurement and Data, List 1
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