compared

past tense of compare
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as in equated
to describe as similar reviews that compared the adventure movie to a thrilling ride on a roller coaster

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Recent Examples of compared Weather aside, Fall/Winter 2026 Haute Couture Week, which ran from July 6 to 9, featured 30 houses compared with FW25’s 27-strong line-up. Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 10 July 2026 The result visually is a classy, organic mix of homes that feels like it’s evolved here compared with the repetitive, Vegas-style placelessness of most other master planned communities throughout Central America. Peter Lane Taylor, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026 To date, only around 20 percent of Europeans have AC at home (and a mere 4 percent in the UK), compared with roughly 90 percent in the US, where electricity is considerably cheaper. Sabrina Weiss, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026 The company also projected revenue would be up in the mid-teens compared with the July-through-September period of 2025. Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 10 July 2026 In Wisconsin, approximately 65% of respondents identified these issues as a concern, compared with 74% who did so on a broader, national level. Brett Dejager, The Conversation, 10 July 2026 The median sale price of a home in Santa Clarita, per Zillow, is $781,500, compared with a median sale price of more than $1 million in the city of Los Angeles. Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026 Advances in childbirth — including prenatal care, Cesarean sections, blood transfusions, antibiotics and neonatal intensive care — also dramatically improved maternal and infant survival compared with colonial America. Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026 The company says those technologies can double production ramp-up speed compared with previous manufacturing lines. Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for compared
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  • What the rise of 'chalance' says about dating People have equated aloofness with coolness since long before the internet came around.
    Charles Trepany, USA Today, 29 June 2026
  • College football fans who equated NCAA rules to actual laws.
    Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 22 June 2026
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  • The other, identified by police as the 22-year-old Antioch resident, remains free.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 10 July 2026
  • Wandering worms After the surgery, a genetic test identified the worm as Spirometra erinaceieuropaei, which causes a tapeworm infection called sparganosis.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 9 July 2026
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  • This is because their orange coloration is linked to the X-chromosome.
    Madeline Gunderson, USA Today, 5 July 2026
  • Andretti Global is in positive talks to retain Marcus Ericsson, while Dennis Hauger, previously linked to Andretti, is now exploring other options, intensifying the 2027 grid's dynamic changes.
    Bruce Martin, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
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  • A-list musicians, celebrities, sports players, and Hollywood stars made up the 1,000-person guest list, proving just how connected the superstar and NFL player are in their respective circles.
    Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2026
  • Hunt withdrew a previous endorsement of Platner after the Times story last month and was connected with Racicot soon afterward to offer her support.
    Allison Gordon, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
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  • Alvarez wonders if the breaking point of a liquid is related not to a property like elasticity, but to something more fundamental to the liquid’s structure.
    Rohini Subrahmanyam, Quanta Magazine, 10 July 2026
  • Tisch referred to his killing as gang-related and said investigators are looking into whether it’s connected to the barbecue shooting.
    Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 10 July 2026
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  • The Royals and Mets, who matched up in the 2015 World Series, each entered Tuesday’s series opener with the second-worst records in their respective leagues.
    Tim Britton, New York Times, 8 July 2026
  • That eclipses the previous record of 23 set by FX’s The Bear in 2024 and matched in 2025 by Apple TV’s The Studio.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 8 July 2026

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