absolute
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Tech is below its long-term average on both a relative P/E compared with the broader market and an absolute P/E that looks at the sector relative to only its own history.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
Researchers from the University of Toronto, L'École Normale Supérieure in Paris and Lehigh University in Pennsylvania reached the finding by studying ultracold potassium atoms cooled to nearly absolute zero.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
"I can say with absolute certainty that to raise creatures able to survive nature's harshness, they must be toughened up while growing up," Kinjo, 56, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Historically, hoping that an absolute power will benevolently provide for humanity if sufficiently enlightened hasn’t led to safe or positive outcomes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Seven had not taken Edgar Allan Toad out in a while, and he was even more of an absolute goose without fresh air, so she’d made sure to take him with her that morning.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
No doubt, but as we have seen with the handball law if you add more absolutes that simply results in more disallowed goals.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025
Johnson told Barron’s that the projected percentage increases represent ranges rather than absolutes, and that individual payouts would depend on the company and the employee’s performance.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2025
Khondji concedes to these particularities, yet he doesn’t think in rigid absolutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025
"They are not designed to be absolutes," he said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 2, 2023
But she also understood that sometimes the world was just a little bit more complicated and grown folks liked to operate in absolutes.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
Vocabulary lists containing absolute
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 6
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The New SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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