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"By using meals prepared in a tightly controlled metabolic kitchen, we were able to compare the apps' estimates against a precise reference," said Hengist.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
Scientists compare these patterns with models of the solar atmosphere to calculate how much of an element is present.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
The Danish company said that Eli Lilly’s studies compare the highest injectable doses of its own medicines against lower doses of Novo Nordisk’s injectable medicines for obesity and type-2 diabetes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
A machine can collect, compare and collate tremendous amounts of information, but it can’t do the thing that matters most of all—decide what has genuine value for human lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
You did not just compare the history of our great nation to the Terminator franchise.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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Cundiff compares the effect to a lighthouse that sweeps a beam across the horizon as its lamp rotates.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
That compares with a high-grade corporate spread of about 80 basis points for the ICE BofA US Corporate Index, up from about 73 basis points in June.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
That compares with $2.72 the same day at Henry Hub, a Louisiana pipeline junction where the national benchmark is set.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
In recent years, the test score rise has been incremental, but compares well with other school systems.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
I know what a brain looks like, and generally what each region of it does, but I don’t know how mine compares to others.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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Meta is expected to report negative $178.4 million, compared with positive $9 billion a year ago, while Amazon’s is forecast to decline to negative $3.8 billion from positive $332 million a year ago.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Recurring operating profit reached 921 million euros in the first half, flat compared with the same months last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Quick, sharp in the box and relatively small in stature, Satpaev is stylistically often compared to former Argentina and Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Net profit in the April-June period slumped 70 percent to £435 million compared with the 2025 second quarter after the company abandoned a chronic cough treatment, GSK said in an earnings statement.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
When it had originally been erected, some people had even compared it to the Great Wall of China, although that was pushing it a bit.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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MPs on the Treasury Committee this month said comparing student loan repayments to phone contracts or cinema tickets "amounted to mis-selling" by government.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
To evaluate and calibrate the imager, researchers are comparing Psyche's flyby observations with data collected by other spacecraft and rovers at Mars.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
The bot’s report shows a table comparing its assumptions for those four value drivers for SpaceX against the market’s assumptions, letting investors decide for themselves which numbers look reasonable.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
“This ad is especially misleading because there is no head-to-head clinical trial comparing the highest doses of these two medicines,” Novo Nordisk said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
To deconvolute the effects of heredity and environment, Siemens suggested comparing fraternal twins to identical twins.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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