as in similar
having qualities in common
two comparable selections that are hard to choose between
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Recent Examples of comparable
Solar drone that flies for 90 days Skydweller’s aircraft are built from lightweight carbon fiber and feature a wingspan comparable to a Boeing 747.
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Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2025
Fed Chair Powell says AI boom not comparable to dot com bubble.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2025
This is not to suggest for a moment that our struggle is even remotely comparable in scale to theirs.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2025
Whether the atrocities of the RSF and SAF are comparable is an open question.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 30 Oct. 2025
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Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2025
Fed Chair Powell says AI boom not comparable to dot com bubble.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2025
This is not to suggest for a moment that our struggle is even remotely comparable in scale to theirs.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2025
Whether the atrocities of the RSF and SAF are comparable is an open question.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 30 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comparable
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While its initial focus was cross-border payments, Zhang said the company’s revenue is now spread over an array of products, with business accounts similar to Mercury comprising 34% of its revenue, spend management 20%, and payments 30%.—
Leo Schwartz,
Fortune,
3 Nov. 2025
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Though the Maldives is the first country to enact such a ban, similar proposals have been debated – and nearly imposed – in other parts of the world.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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That case established a new Second Amendment test, holding that modern-day regulations regarding gun rights must have an analogous historical regulation.—
Solcyré Burga,
Time,
27 Oct. 2025
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As fiction films do something analogous to what is done in prose forms like the novel and the short story, so nonfiction films can have a broad choice of nonfiction literary models.—
Susan Sontag,
Vogue,
26 Oct. 2025
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Humans and wildlife alike feast on the fruit, with a taste between a banana and a pineapple and a custard-like texture.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
28 Aug. 2025
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One of my pieces was authenticated through eBay, and the leather, stitching, canvas, and quality are alike.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Aug. 2025
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The Oceans 11 star said that being in such close proximity to major stars taught him an important lesson early in his career.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
26 Oct. 2025
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But such is the lightning pace of Mbappe that he might be best placed dropping deeper during build-up before darting in-behind.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Comparable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comparable. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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