compactor

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“As hundred-year comparators go, that’s apt. But fusion would be like fire” in its watershed effect on civilization.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Helix’s clients include NIAID, which provides the comparators to researchers it funds.

From Science Magazine • May 30, 2023

He criticised the doppelganger method of analysis on the basis that some smaller countries selected by the models were inappropriate comparators for a large economy like Britain.

From Reuters • Jan. 30, 2023

"Cases and admissions are currently at much higher levels than in European comparators, which have retained additional measures and have greater vaccine coverage especially in children," the scientists say.

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2021

This improvement, we think, was originated by Mr. Ramsden, and was a very great advance over the old method of the straight-edge, and has been used in some of the Government comparators and dividing engines.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua