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Recent Examples of comparison
By comparison, there is no tax deduction for Roth contributions, but the funds grow tax-free.
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Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
The designer has been building up his own collection of artwork — modest in comparison to what’s on display at Frieze Masters.
—Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2025
When tickets did ultimately go on sale last week, prices were multiple times higher than either point of comparison.
—Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Our own don’t seem so bad in comparison.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
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Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
The designer has been building up his own collection of artwork — modest in comparison to what’s on display at Frieze Masters.
—Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2025
When tickets did ultimately go on sale last week, prices were multiple times higher than either point of comparison.
—Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Our own don’t seem so bad in comparison.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comparison
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But Calise reminded the audience AI development and adoption is very much still in the first inning, to use a baseball analogy.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
13 Oct. 2025
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Max’s wide range of uses has prompted analogies to China’s WeChat.—
Justin Sherman,
The Atlantic,
11 Oct. 2025
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The other part of the equation — making sure graduates land good jobs — is more complicated.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
16 Oct. 2025
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As a result, Portland isn’t just synonymous with Nike and Columbia Sportswear, Laika now factors into that equation.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
15 Oct. 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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That false equivalence, Sadeghi noted, is part of a broader retrieval problem.—
Tor Constantino,
Forbes.com,
5 Sep. 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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As at many schools, CAMP at Millersville is also linked with programs that help migrant students earn their high school equivalency diplomas, known as HEP.—
Jordan Owens,
NPR,
22 Sep. 2025
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This ensures that their mirror-universe versions are the same, thus maintaining the symmetry of parity.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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That’s the beauty of the NFL – the parity.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Oct. 2025
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As a precaution, health and trade associations are urging consumers and bars to destroy or properly dispose of empty bottles to prevent counterfeiters from reusing them in the production of fake liquor.—
Alessandra Freitas,
CNN Money,
12 Oct. 2025
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The players’ association and the WNBA agreed to an eight-year deal in 2020, but last year the WNBPA voted to opt out of the agreement early.—
Ryan Canfield,
FOXNews.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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While Gandy played twice in the state of California during his three seasons with the Falcons, there’s an insufficient linkage between the Falcons and California for purposes of workers’ comp coverage.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
13 Oct. 2025
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The linkage of extremist speech to lethal violence has prompted calls to legally restrict or punish extremist speech.—
Gregory P. Magarian,
The Conversation,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Comparison.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comparison. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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