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Recent Examples of comparison
Concha criticized the comparison, pointing to the government shutdown.
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Adisa Hargett-Robinson, The Washington Examiner, 7 Nov. 2025
Obviously, the cost to acquire Banks would have paled in comparison to the king's ransom Indianapolis paid for Gardner.
—Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2025
That $100 billion pales in comparison to the $1 trillion pay package that over 75% of Tesla shareholders approved for Musk this week.
—PC Magazine, 7 Nov. 2025
The obvious comparison is with Dek’s father, the uncaring alpha Predator who tried to kill his son for not being vicious enough.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
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Adisa Hargett-Robinson, The Washington Examiner, 7 Nov. 2025
Obviously, the cost to acquire Banks would have paled in comparison to the king's ransom Indianapolis paid for Gardner.
—Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2025
That $100 billion pales in comparison to the $1 trillion pay package that over 75% of Tesla shareholders approved for Musk this week.
—PC Magazine, 7 Nov. 2025
The obvious comparison is with Dek’s father, the uncaring alpha Predator who tried to kill his son for not being vicious enough.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comparison
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In that analogy, Freeman already was the Stafford of this search.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
7 Jan. 2026
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The coincidence has invited an avalanche of historical analogies.—
Cristina Guevara,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Jan. 2026
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Rustin drilled Selva one last time on complex equations and imperial history.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
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Most people who study physics can only refer to the Lorentz transformation’s equations and plug numbers in, not explain why times dilate and lengths contract, particularly near the speed of light.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
5 Nov. 2025
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The company says its early equivalence testing shows comparable stability and shelf-life to traditional plastics.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Nov. 2025
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There can be no equivalences drawn between the two political extremes in this country, especially when one extreme is led by a man who rarely speaks without lying.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
9 Oct. 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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The director longlist could feature up to 11 filmmakers under BAFTA’s gender parity intervention, which ensures equal representation of women and men directors.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
7 Jan. 2026
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Insisting on more funding for the Pentagon is almost certain to run into resistance from Democrats who work to maintain parity between changes in defense and non-defense spending.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
7 Jan. 2026
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The controllers’ union and Airlines for America (A4A), the commercial airlines’ trade association, declined to directly address the question of privatization when asked on Friday.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
9 Nov. 2025
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Drew Maloney, the CEO of the Edison Electric Institute, a trade association of for-profit electric utilities, suggested that only some states are the drivers of higher average electric bills.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
8 Nov. 2025
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Each gear represented a digit, and clever mechanical linkages handled operations such as carrying values from one digit to the next.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Jan. 2026
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Despite that linkage, the design took decades to come to fruition as BMW worked through variations of its X portfolio body and grille designs.—
Eileen Falkenberg-Hull,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Dec. 2025
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“Comparison.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comparison. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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