compares

present tense third-person singular of compare
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as in equates
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 compares That compares with 8,663 voluntary departures for the previous fiscal year. Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025 Chris Goldfinger, an Oregon State University marine geologist and lead author of the new paper, compares the process to tuning an analog radio, in which the device’s oscillators are synced up to convert incoming signals. Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2025 Tour compares his lab’s setup to a toaster oven, which uses electricity to rapidly heat a quartz tube under a slice of bread. IEEE Spectrum, 9 Oct. 2025 That compares with Madden’s women’s footwear prices ranging from $50 to $350, and handbags between $49 to $179. Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2025 That compares with 145,000 gas stations nationwide. Mark Phelan, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025 Azarakhsh Jalalvand of Princeton University, the paper’s lead author, compares the concept to an AI watching a silent movie and generating a full soundtrack purely from the visual information. Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2025 Jerry Ratcliffe, professor of criminology at the University of Pennsylvania, compares the Guard deployments to the United Kingdom's police community support officers, who wear uniforms but lack traditional police powers. Martin Kaste, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025 However, no data specifically compares antioxidant levels in these two potato types. Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 2 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for compares
Verb
  • Such pursuits may be the only way to shake off intellectual paralysis—the only way to remember what 2+2 actually equates.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
  • For a culture like ours, which so closely equates value with productivity, this disruption poses an existential threat as much as an economic one.
    Jane Marie Chen, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • However, golf insider Dan Rapaport recently revealed that Woods himself identifies a detail from his past as one of the main causes.
    Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Oct. 2025
  • For context, the woman, who identifies herself as a 26-year-old with three siblings, explained that the family dynamic has always been complicated.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Dalke's monitoring path through DC takes her under a skyway that connects two buildings downtown.
    NPR, NPR, 17 Oct. 2025
  • There is a bus system (rides start at €2) that connects most of the major tourist sites in Palma, and a railway (round trip, €40) that brings passengers to some other sites, including Sollér.
    Emilio Parra Doiztua, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As the former Pentagon Papers whistleblower relates, all of us will be losers; sobering words that remain a catalyst for change.
    Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Hanke relates that it was riddled with loopholes that handed the Banco Central de la República Argentina discretionary monetary powers.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Tom Kane, of Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research, likens these rounds of student achievement data to helpful health checks to see how students are doing.
    Cory Turner, NPR, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Klonoff likens the technology of the time to the Wright brothers’ first aircraft prototypes as compared with today’s jet engines.
    Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025

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