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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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as in identifies
to regard or represent as equal or comparable
compared the restaurant's food to the nectar of the gods
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Recent Examples of compares
The visualisation below looks across the manager’s three-year spell at Bournemouth, and compares the high-intensity distance covered by each of his players with the league average across that same period.
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Thom Harris, New York Times, 5 June 2026
The New Orleans native compares his decision-making process to having only one dollar to spend in the MCU and wanting to use it wisely.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026
That compares with 69 by this time last year.
—Kansas City Star, 4 June 2026
The data, which compares the period from November 2025 to April 2026 with the previous six-month period of May to October 2025, reveals the four AI skills that enterprises have been most thirsty for in recent months.
—Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 2 June 2026
This chart compares average hotel prices across 11 World Cup cities and average ticket prices across the same cities.
—Joe Murphy, NBC news, 1 June 2026
The study compares unemployment rates pre-pandemic, from 2017 to 2019, with unemployment rates after the pandemic, from 2022 to 2024.
—Andrea Hsu, NPR, 1 June 2026
As Sikiric tells it, there is no other substance right now that compares with BPC-157.
—Sara Talpos — Undark, STAT, 1 June 2026
From there, the team compares the similarity of tasks across wildly different job categories.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 May 2026
Thom Harris, New York Times, 5 June 2026
The New Orleans native compares his decision-making process to having only one dollar to spend in the MCU and wanting to use it wisely.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026
That compares with 69 by this time last year.
—Kansas City Star, 4 June 2026
The data, which compares the period from November 2025 to April 2026 with the previous six-month period of May to October 2025, reveals the four AI skills that enterprises have been most thirsty for in recent months.
—Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 2 June 2026
This chart compares average hotel prices across 11 World Cup cities and average ticket prices across the same cities.
—Joe Murphy, NBC news, 1 June 2026
The study compares unemployment rates pre-pandemic, from 2017 to 2019, with unemployment rates after the pandemic, from 2022 to 2024.
—Andrea Hsu, NPR, 1 June 2026
As Sikiric tells it, there is no other substance right now that compares with BPC-157.
—Sara Talpos — Undark, STAT, 1 June 2026
From there, the team compares the similarity of tasks across wildly different job categories.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for compares
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Millennials, in particular, have been tagged as a generation that romanticizes the pivot—that equates reinvention with a full reset.—
Jasmine Browley,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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Critics said the report essentially equates one stand of conservative Christianity to be representative of Christians overall, then construes policy disagreements to be persecution.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
1 May 2026
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Recent trend reporting identifies protein as the top consumer driver of the year across both meals and snacks.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Charlotte Observer,
4 June 2026
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The Declaration identifies, famously, that consent as the basis of governmental legitimacy.—
Britney Porter,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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In a conventional arrangement, the strut body is mounted to the chassis while the shaft connects to the wheel assembly.—
Utkarsh Sood
June 06,
New Atlas,
6 June 2026
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The bridge connects Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and will provide a third border crossing option at the Detroit River.—
Nick Lentz,
CBS News,
6 June 2026
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Silence = Death, the work of the Silence = Death Collective (and not ACT UP, as Avram Finkelstein relates in his interview) became the primary pictorial representation of ACT UP and a rallying slogan for the fight against the disease.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
3 June 2026
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Jill Biden relates the 2019 primary debate in which Harris got headlines for challenging Biden for his vote four decades earlier on using busing to desegregate schools.—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
30 May 2026
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One was the billionaire businessman Thomas Kaplan, who likens Turner to a combination of John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt.—
Todd Wilkinson,
Denver Post,
27 May 2026
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In the article, Rayport likens the ideal marketing campaign to a virus—one that strikes quickly, costs little, and works effectively.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
15 May 2026
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“Compares.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compares. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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