Definition of comparablenext

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Recent Examples of comparable Montalvo was on the phone with StubHub up until an hour before kick-off after StubHub abruptly notified Montalvo that the seller could not deliver the tickets and refused to provide comparable replacements due to soaring prices, reported the BBC. Natassia Paloma, USA Today, 6 July 2026 JetZero claims around 50% lower fuel burn than comparable current aircraft. Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 5 July 2026 Sunday’s decision was comparable to a 1962 ruling allowing Brazilian attacker Garrincha to play in the World Cup final after high-level political figures — including Prime Minister Tancredo Neves — petitioned FIFA to overturn or drop the suspension. Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026 The other claims that early Earth was too hot for rigid plates, and that crust instead formed above mantle plumes rising from deep within the planet, a phenomenon comparable, Johnson said, to the wax blobs rising inside a lava lamp. Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 5 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for comparable
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Adjective
  • Ganfield said there was a flash, similar to when a grenade goes off in a film.
    Jazmin Alvarado, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
  • Space has spent decades in a similar space, as a technology that is impressive but not yet ordinary, but that may finally be changing.
    Charlotte Kiang, Forbes.com, 9 July 2026
Adjective
  • Quantum versions of many classic math problems also come with analogous quantum proofs.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 6 July 2026
  • Moreover, the timeline for doing all this is roughly analogous as well – a matter of weeks, once the fissile material is in hand.
    Ilan Berman, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Adjective
  • America's most affluent suburbs are more alike than different.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • According to author Caroline Hallemann—whose book The Kennedys and the Windsors came out on June 2—the two women were even more alike than meets the eye.
    Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 9 June 2026
Adjective
  • The abductions in the southern state of Oyo had represented an escalation of the country’s security crisis because most such abductions previously had taken place in the north.
    ABC News, ABC News, 10 July 2026
  • About 200,000 such observations, spanning July 2022 to June 2025, formed the dataset the team used to measure Earth’s frame dragging.
    Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026

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“Comparable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comparable. Accessed 11 Jul. 2026.

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