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Recent Examples of comparison
For anyone who has explored the Everglades, the bayou ecosystem offers an interesting point of comparison — different landscape, different species, equally captivating.
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Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2026
The top plate is a little crowded, so rear controls are scant in comparison.
—Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
By comparison, the five-year and 10-year averages for such rates sat at 42% and 40%, respectively.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 6 Apr. 2026
Her sophomore season was good by most standards, but paled in comparison to her freshman season.
—Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2026
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Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2026
The top plate is a little crowded, so rear controls are scant in comparison.
—Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
By comparison, the five-year and 10-year averages for such rates sat at 42% and 40%, respectively.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 6 Apr. 2026
Her sophomore season was good by most standards, but paled in comparison to her freshman season.
—Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comparison
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This analogy came to life during the flyby, as the astronauts pointed out shades of browns and blues that can help reveal the mineral composition of a feature and its age, NASA said.—
Ava Berger,
NPR,
7 Apr. 2026
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The Manhattan Project analogy applied to employee recruitment, too.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Capital is only stranded on one side of the equation.—
Daren Smith,
IndieWire,
1 Apr. 2026
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So Jaguar decided to change the equation, and the ensuing polarizing response was exactly what the company was looking for, at least to hear Jaguar tell it.—
Erik Shilling,
Robb Report,
31 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Translation, too, is a practice of uneven equivalences.—
Jan Steyn,
The Dial,
10 Mar. 2026
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His disturbing and bloody rhetoric created a twisted equivalence between violent crime and immigrants, most of whom come here to work, raise families and contribute to our population growth and economy.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Programs in Michigan prisons range from high school equivalency and special education to trades like welding, robotics and commercial truck driving.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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The Collegiate Consulting study focuses largely on branding and visibility through a metric known as advertising value equivalency (AVE), which measures how much advertising would cost with equivalent exposure.—
Michael McGough,
Sacbee.com,
8 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The draft is designed to increase parity by sending the best new players to the worst teams in the league.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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The move doesn’t exactly contribute to the idea of parity.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Apr. 2026
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As a result, religious – and specifically Catholic – leaders suspected an association between the philosophically consistent Illuminati and Freemasons.—
Derek Arnold,
The Conversation,
6 Apr. 2026
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So, while the findings are compelling, they should be interpreted as an association rather than proof that choosing passive activities directly leads to dementia.—
Katia Hetter,
CNN Money,
6 Apr. 2026
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Mission teams have secured the rocket's mobile launcher to infrastructure at the pad, connected power and communications linkages and installed the crew's emergency egress system.—
Brett Tingley,
Space.com,
30 Mar. 2026
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There’s another category of shock that affects maybe only one or two sectors directly, but those sectors have very high linkages to the rest of the economy.—
Matt Peterson,
CNBC,
30 Mar. 2026
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“Comparison.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comparison. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.
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