comparable

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That compares with a profit of $62.4 million, or 15 cents a share, in last year’s comparable period.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

But Allen, typically, was not fazed, saying his show bested the competition in key markets and was more comparable with the same time period last May before Colbert’s post-cancellation victory lap.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

The team's experiments showed that the gold-patterned structures substantially increased the amount of heat moving across the gap, achieving heat transfer rates up to four times greater than comparable systems lacking the engineered patterns.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

Theobald said studies on male athletes had already linked contact sports with certain brain conditions, but a comparable long-term study "has never been done on women".

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

Between 1622 and 1635 Isaac Beeckman, in the Netherlands, struggled to produce a telescope comparable in quality to the ones Galileo had in 1610.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton