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Recent Examples of comparison
In comparison, the 16e scored 3,441 and 8,362, and the 17 scored 3,653 and 9,264, respectively.
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Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 9 Mar. 2026
And William’s image is relatively clean, particularly in comparison to his older relatives.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 9 Mar. 2026
For Adebayo, there still is a considerable gap to overcome, with his 10,001 points paling in comparison to Wade’s 21,556 with the Heat.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2026
Consider one simple comparison.
—Mike Garcia, Oc Register, 9 Mar. 2026
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Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 9 Mar. 2026
And William’s image is relatively clean, particularly in comparison to his older relatives.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 9 Mar. 2026
For Adebayo, there still is a considerable gap to overcome, with his 10,001 points paling in comparison to Wade’s 21,556 with the Heat.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2026
Consider one simple comparison.
—Mike Garcia, Oc Register, 9 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comparison
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For an analogy, look back on the introduction of search engines, which led to a massive cut in the time needed to do research and get answers.—
Peter Cappelli,
Fortune,
28 Feb. 2026
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Arteta has used the analogy that the positional grouping of injuries is like ‘buying tickets’ for more fitness problems down the line, an image that has proven to be apt across almost every area of his squad.—
Art de Roché,
New York Times,
28 Feb. 2026
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The researchers focused specifically on what is known as the viscous regime in Navier-Stokes equations.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
5 Mar. 2026
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Especially when the formula that worked so well the previous day — K-State buried a tournament-record 17 three-pointers in a first-round victory over Cincinnati — wasn’t part of Thursday’s equation.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
5 Mar. 2026
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If antimatter ignored the weak equivalence principle, the atoms might have drifted upward, repelled by Earth.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
18 Jan. 2026
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This is a telling, inauspicious equivalence.—
Rosa Lyster,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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In their minds, there’s an equivalency, but there really isn’t.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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At first, though, there was little doubt in the North that there was no moral equivalency of cause with the South.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
5 Oct. 2025
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Today, the global observance celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women while also lobbying for greater gender parity.—
Alexis Simmerman,
Austin American Statesman,
8 Mar. 2026
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Despite the fact that mental health parity has been paused and Medicaid financing (responsible for more than a quarter of all behavioral health expenditures) is on the ropes, there are some promising recent developments on mental illness and addiction.—
Anand Parekh,
STAT,
6 Mar. 2026
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For all its public association with queerness, ballet remains largely committed to a frail, wispy femininity and a princely but muscular and explosive masculinity—with the stringent, often punishing body-shape standards to match.—
Chloe Angyal,
Time,
9 Mar. 2026
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The homeowners association fee just went up to $686 a month, straining her budget, and the value of her unit has plummeted.—
Jonathan J. Cooper,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2026
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To Tracey, that reflexive linkage is telling.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Mar. 2026
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In a brake-by-wire setup, the driver’s pedal input is converted into an electrical command that is sent directly to actuators at each wheel, removing the need for traditional mechanical or hydraulic linkages.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Feb. 2026
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“Comparison.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comparison. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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