How to Use comparator in a Sentence

comparator

noun

• But in a case-series design, there is no control or comparator group.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2022
• An active comparator might also be used rather than an inert placebo because of ethics.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 5 June 2025
• Prasad took issue with the comparator arm Moderna used in its trial.
  — Allison Deangelis, STAT, 12 Feb. 2026
• In all of these trials a benzodiazepine is the active comparator.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2012
• Research comparators and consider online pre-sales before lugging heavy items to the yard.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Parents, 16 May 2024
• Is the clinical trial placebo controlled or has an active comparator?
  — Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
• One-third of the subjects, the comparator arm, will receive two full doses of Jynneos given 28 days apart.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 7 Aug. 2022
• For a comparison for that comparator, there are 47 Olympic-size pools in all of Australia.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2011
• Although cow’s milk is more commonly consumed and has also shown immune benefits, it was not used as a control or comparator.
  — New Atlas, 6 July 2025
• Now, researchers who are aiming for more broadly protective vaccines need the comparators to improve the design of their own candidates.
  — Byjon Cohen, science.org, 30 May 2023
• The decision was framed as technical — centered on questions about trial design and comparator standards — but that is a pretext.
  — Richard Hughes Iv, STAT, 18 Feb. 2026
• This reluctance makes sense in the face of uncertainty about how a company’s policy might stack up against industry comparators.
  — Michelle Travis, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
• Using a tool called a blink comparator, Tombaugh finally found the mysterious body in 1930.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2025
• The Helix products cannot serve as comparators to help pan-sarbecovirus vaccines win FDA approval.
  — Byjon Cohen, science.org, 30 May 2023
• That goes to the fact that Burfict’s suspension is not occurring in a vacuum—it will be used as a comparator for other players who commit wrongful acts on the field.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• Over the next 24 weeks, this two-drug combo held down HIV as effectively as a three-drug regimen used as a comparator.
  — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 24 July 2019
• In med-tech, clinical trials typically use the company’s own past products or a statistical benchmark as a comparator.
  — Joe Carlson, Star Tribune, 14 Oct. 2020
• Poljak says that Björnsson’s feat is a good comparator because the load on your legs and core muscles in a strong gravitational field feels pretty much like carrying a large weight on your shoulders.
  — Michael Allen, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2018
• During the days, when stargazing was impossible, Tombaugh would analyze the photographic plates with an optical device known as a blink comparator.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 18 Feb. 2025
• Instead of considering the best comparator compound and the easiest way to copy past programs, drug developers need to become more nimble and innovative.
  — Richard Ghalie, STAT, 26 Dec. 2019
• On the right is how they are encoded into the elements provided by the THAT, such as integrators and comparators.
  — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Dec. 2023
• Polyglot India is the nearest international comparator to the EU, but there too debates rage over whether to adopt a sole official language to add coherence.
  — The Economist, 15 June 2019
• But some legal experts have observed that the Vullo case could be a relevant comparator if any legal action were undertaken in the matter or similar situations in the future.
  — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2025
• Another useful comparator may be A League of Their Own, Sky’s biggest comedy entertainment series over more than a decade.
  — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 22 Mar. 2026
• During the hearing, the court will examine a scoring sheet developed by independent experts to help decide whether the work done by a select number of claimants was of equal value to comparators working in distribution centers.
  — Emma Burleigh, Fortune Europe, 9 Sep. 2024
• UniQure moved forward without a placebo control, using external, untreated patients as a comparator control group for their trial, believing the FDA backed the plan.
  — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 17 June 2026
• The one proposal that passed muster with the board, on a 9-6 vote, was another attempt to develop an alternative to human fetal tissue, using as a comparator fetal tissue that has already been obtained and stored in a biorepository.
  — Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 18 Aug. 2020
• Moderna disputes that reasoning, noting that FDA rules and guidance do not actually require trials to use the most advanced or highest-dose vaccine as a comparator in clinical studies.
  — Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 10 Feb. 2026
• Moderna has disputed that reasoning, noting that FDA rules and guidance do not actually require trials to use the most advanced or highest-dose vaccine as a comparator in clinical studies.
  — Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 18 Feb. 2026
• Participating companies receive performance feedback in an individualized report that scores their benefits against comparators.
  — Michelle Travis, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024