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compare

[kuhm-pair] / kəmˈpɛər /




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It is difficult to assess how the numbers compare to the previous year's figures, when 24,000 spills were recorded because of lower coverage.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

Yet despite the stakes, 69% of Medicare beneficiaries didn’t compare their coverage to other available options during open enrollment for 2022, according to a 2024 KFF analysis.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026

From there, I’ll look at signatures, I’ll compare it to other things in the artist’s body of work and see if it makes sense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

Finding galaxies at these distances could therefore provide another important way to compare the competing explanations.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026

Because we can compare his observations with our retrodiction of the location of the moons of Jupiter when he was observing them.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

He compares the recent AI boom to the dot-com bubble around 2000, and warns that lofty growth expectations can lead to disappointment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

That compares with 2,289 cases during all of 2025, and is the highest level recorded by the CDC since 1991.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

Egues compares the arrangement to two compasses that interact through a magnetic field.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

That compares with a loss of $3.12 billion, or $2.89 a share, a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

The advantage to the cleaning person is harder to determine, since the pay compares so poorly to what an independent cleaner is likely to earn—up to $15 an hour, I’ve heard.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

Over a period of up to four years, 12.7% of participants who stopped statins experienced a heart attack, stroke, or death, compared with 9.2% of those who kept taking the medications.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026

Maul tries are more than twice as common in this November window than the last, with 0.67 per game compared to 0.3 in 2025.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

Wealth net flows came to 3.24 billion pounds in the quarter, a 29% increase compared with the year-earlier period.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Raman, who takes office on Dec. 14, won with nearly 55% of the vote, compared with about 45% for Bass, according to the most recent results.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

In England, it was already possible to search by fingerprint; a complex system of classification meant that a new fingerprint could be compared to similar fingerprints on file in minutes.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

With the medications finally entered, the counselor began the time-consuming task of comparing Part D plans, including Humana Basic Rx Plan and Blue MedicareRx Value Plus, along with their star ratings.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026

He cultivated an outsider status, famously comparing his comfort in the legal profession to “an imperfectly housebroken pet,” in a 2001 interview with the New Yorker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

The new analysis, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, looked at previous studies comparing the effectiveness of more than a dozen common antidepressants in total.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

By peering into Ryugu’s relatively pristine samples and comparing them with meteorites like Murchison and Orgueil, researchers are tracing the cosmic journey of life’s probable molecular ingredients.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

By studying twins, and comparing and contrasting similarities and differences, a geneticist could determine the precise contributions of nature versus nurture to important traits.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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