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Recent Examples of comparison
Acting aside, the main point of comparison between himself and his two famous brothers is his height.
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Redazione People, Vanity Fair, 27 Apr. 2026
For comparison, there were only 14 Hispanic or Latino members and all were male in the 99th Congress, 40 years ago.
—ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
Jones smiled when told about the comparison to Zedak.
—Tony Baranek, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
By comparison, a manned destroyer costs $700,000 a day.
—Arkansas Online, 26 Apr. 2026
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Redazione People, Vanity Fair, 27 Apr. 2026
For comparison, there were only 14 Hispanic or Latino members and all were male in the 99th Congress, 40 years ago.
—ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
Jones smiled when told about the comparison to Zedak.
—Tony Baranek, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
By comparison, a manned destroyer costs $700,000 a day.
—Arkansas Online, 26 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comparison
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But the Cold War analogy cuts in both directions.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
19 Apr. 2026
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That’s probably enough baseball talk for the moment, but the question still stands and the analogy applies to a broad range of job seekers.—
Amy Lindgren,
Twin Cities,
18 Apr. 2026
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However, Winfried Lohmiller and Jean-Jacques Slotine at the Nonlinear Systems Laboratory at MIT have derived a new formulation that can help scientists arrive at the same solution as the Schrödinger equation, commonly used in quantum mechanics, while using principles of classical physics.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Apr. 2026
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The statute of limitations is another critical variable in this equation.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
23 Apr. 2026
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So proving this equivalence would instantly confirm much of the topological power that Bar-Natan and van der Veen ascribe to their new invariant.—
Erica Klarreich,
Quanta Magazine,
22 Apr. 2026
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Translation, too, is a practice of uneven equivalences.—
Jan Steyn,
The Dial,
10 Mar. 2026
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The center currently provides adult education, including English language classes and high school equivalency programs, but residents say that's only a fraction of what's needed.—
Aaron Parseghian,
CBS News,
12 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
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The country’s investment in research and development has reached parity with – and by purchasing power measures has surpassed – that of the United States, according to a March 2026 report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.—
Caroline Wagner,
The Conversation,
24 Apr. 2026
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Building parity with humans is a challenge A humanoid robot ran faster than the human world record in a half-marathon race for robots in Beijing on Sunday, but getting a machine to interact and compete at split-second speeds with skilled human athletes is in some ways a more difficult challenge.—
Matt O’Brien,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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But its primary association in the public consciousness since the nineteen-eighties is with the criminal underworld, particularly the drug cartels.—
Chris Wiley,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2026
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New research is suggesting a strong association between mouth bacteria and gastric cancer.—
Angelica Stabile,
FOXNews.com,
27 Apr. 2026
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This would be achieved by making the flying experience less like an airplane and more like an automobile, including replacing mechanical control linkages with fly-by-wire systems, even removing the traditional rudder pedals.—
David Szondy
April 25,
New Atlas,
25 Apr. 2026
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We – this isn't over until there is a complete de-linkage between Iran and its proxies, which have spread death, mayhem and destruction around the Middle East.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2026
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“Comparison.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comparison. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.
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