comparable
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They experienced an initial full-quarter earnings decline of 13% that would be comparable in scale “with graduating into a large recession,” the authors wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Researchers found comparable declines in the associations involving premature birth and several measures of socioeconomic disadvantage.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
These figures aren’t directly comparable: A home provides a place to live as well as an investment return.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
It also recalls 2022, when more than 30 HBCUs were hit with comparable incidents between January and mid-March.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
Sometimes such radio telescopes are connected with telescopes on the other side of the Earth, forming a baseline comparable to the Earth’s diameter—in a certain sense, a telescope as large as the planet.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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