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Recent Examples of comparison
One comparison to Reeve may be former Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich, who won championships 15 years apart.
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Matthew Coller, Twin Cities, 13 Sep. 2025
For comparison, Kansas City’s temperatures are usually around 80 degrees during the day and drop to around 52 degrees at night in early September.
—Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025
Apple and Nvidia’s performances, both holdings in Cramer’s Charitable Trust, pale in comparison.
—Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
The comparison to air traffic controllers is hard to ignore.
—Jason Truppi, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
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Matthew Coller, Twin Cities, 13 Sep. 2025
For comparison, Kansas City’s temperatures are usually around 80 degrees during the day and drop to around 52 degrees at night in early September.
—Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025
Apple and Nvidia’s performances, both holdings in Cramer’s Charitable Trust, pale in comparison.
—Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
The comparison to air traffic controllers is hard to ignore.
—Jason Truppi, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comparison
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The video of serene waves that swished behind the curved stage at the start of Dua Lipa’s concert slowly intensified until the tide became a surge, an appropriate analogy for the pop superstar’s arrival in the US for the first time in more than three years.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
6 Sep. 2025
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Simmons made an analogy of Jenkins at the wheels of FIU’s offense.—
Walter Villa,
Miami Herald,
4 Sep. 2025
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Typhur’s new Sync appliances change that equation entirely.—
Matt Emma,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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The first prediction, devised by New Zealand mathematician Roy Kerr in 1963, builds upon Einstein’s theory of general relativity, and states that black holes should be paradoxically simple objects, described by a single equation.—
Jacopo Prisco,
CNN Money,
11 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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Just last year, Delaware fined Highmark $329,000 for violating mental health parity laws, which aim to ensure that mental health and physical health insurance claims are treated equally.—
Duaa Eldeib,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
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The simplest left-right symmetric scenario is the Pati-Salam model, which would have no parity violation, but parity violation is robustly observed.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
9 Sep. 2025
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Attention-grabbing highlights of the first season included Land Shark, commercial parodies like Bass-O-Matic and host Richard Pryor’s word association with Chase.—
Ryan Gajewski,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Sep. 2025
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Martinez argued that the state Head Start associations, which filed the lawsuit, required a more sweeping injunction.—
Jack Birle,
The Washington Examiner,
12 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 16 Sep. 2025.
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