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Recent Examples of comparison
The defense attorney also pushed back on the comparison of Wedding to El Chapo or Pablo Escobar.
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Sean Emery, Oc Register, 26 Jan. 2026
What are your thoughts hearing that comparison?
—Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026
Apple, by comparison, is projected to generate about $27 billion, or about 18% of TSMC’s revenue.
—Kif Leswing, CNBC, 26 Jan. 2026
So for the fifth straight year, The Charlotte Observer checked 11 staples at 11 stores to find the lowest and highest priced for our grocery comparison of popular items.
—Charlotte Observer, 13 Jan. 2026
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Sean Emery, Oc Register, 26 Jan. 2026
What are your thoughts hearing that comparison?
—Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026
Apple, by comparison, is projected to generate about $27 billion, or about 18% of TSMC’s revenue.
—Kif Leswing, CNBC, 26 Jan. 2026
So for the fifth straight year, The Charlotte Observer checked 11 staples at 11 stores to find the lowest and highest priced for our grocery comparison of popular items.
—Charlotte Observer, 13 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comparison
Noun
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Here’s an analogy, which may be bad.—
Lacey Rose,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Jan. 2026
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Advertisement In her performance, monet imagined an interaction between King and renowned American jazz drummer Max Roach, offering musicmaking as an analogy for changemaking.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
20 Jan. 2026
Noun
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His perspective is shaped by experience on both sides of the equation.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
22 Jan. 2026
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Even with Giddey back in the fold Thursday, Jones was still an integral part of Chicago’s equation.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
22 Jan. 2026
Noun
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If antimatter ignored the weak equivalence principle, the atoms might have drifted upward, repelled by Earth.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
18 Jan. 2026
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This is a telling, inauspicious equivalence.—
Rosa Lyster,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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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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Initiatives include expanding gold storage facilities, refineries, central clearing systems, investment channels like tokenization, and even forming a trade association for the industry.—
Sean Lee,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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The association with the Stones.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
26 Jan. 2026
Noun
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It’s defined as all cases linked to a common source through an epidemic linkage.—
Joseph Choi,
The Hill,
20 Jan. 2026
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The Hybridleg is a parallel linkage mechanism in which each link consists of a serial chain, forming a five-bar closed linkage.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Jan. 2026
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