relative

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And because of its relative financial stability and its list of long-term clients, it can go without bonding more often than not.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

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

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

From one point of view, the knowledge we end up with seems to be culturally relative, contingent, peculiar; from another it seems to be commonsensical, predictable, inevitable.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton