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Recent Examples of comparison
By comparison, the average transaction price in July for a new car in general was $48,841.
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Jackie Charniga, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
The comparison between Los Angeles and Sacramento is striking.
—Matt Klink, Oc Register, 6 Sep. 2025
The former comparison comes with the use of the Legion of Doom, but its cast of characters is definitely more expansive.
—Will Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Sep. 2025
That is precisely why the comparison matters.
—Debra Gittler, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
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Jackie Charniga, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
The comparison between Los Angeles and Sacramento is striking.
—Matt Klink, Oc Register, 6 Sep. 2025
The former comparison comes with the use of the Legion of Doom, but its cast of characters is definitely more expansive.
—Will Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Sep. 2025
That is precisely why the comparison matters.
—Debra Gittler, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comparison
Noun
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Create 5 different metaphors or analogies that would make this idea immediately clear to THIS specific client based on their background and references.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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The pearl, in this analogy, is an interpretive reading.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Sep. 2025
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However, real-life manufacturing environments are different, introducing variability into the equation.—
Tejasri Gururaj,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Sep. 2025
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But not all hope is lost, as our shopping editors-slash-internet sleuths managed to round up five alternative picks that resemble hers and will complete your fall ‘fit equations.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The curators wanted to include pictures of the victims and artifacts on loan from the cities; however, opponents argued these elements were offensive to veterans and portrayed a false moral equivalence between America and Japan’s actions during the war.—
Kevin Dickinson,
Big Think,
20 Aug. 2025
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Modern platforms can deliver the operational equivalence that teams expect: advanced virtual machine (VM) lifecycle management, high-availability (HA) clustering, backups, disaster recovery (DR) and more.—
Madhura Maskasky,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Wilkerson, Wilson said, attended Edison High School in Lake Station and later got her general equivalency diploma through Portage’s adult education program.—
Amy Lavalley,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Aug. 2025
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For next gen startups with less invasive or temporary implants, demonstrating clinical equivalency to more expensive implants could usher in more nuanced assessment of value.—
Naveen Rao,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Would parity be more fun than the usual suspects dominating the high school football landscape every year?—
Cecil Joyce,
The Tennessean,
3 Sep. 2025
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While Google has maintained price parity with last year's models, the discount on last year's models will be noticeable.—
Ewan Spence,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
Noun
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In contrast, the cerebellum showed no such association.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
7 Sep. 2025
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Bieger and a spokesperson for the alumni association did not immediately return Deadline’s requests for comment.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
6 Sep. 2025
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The linkage to sales tax helped spread the benefit of the rebate scheme more broadly, even though affluent households received larger checks than poorer households.—
Robert Goulder,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Human social organization is characterized by groups that have linkages between them that form larger communities, notes Seyfarth.—
Nell Greenfieldboyce,
NPR,
6 Aug. 2025
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“Comparison.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comparison. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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