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comparison

[kuhm-par-uh-suhn] / kəmˈpær ə sən /


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And while that game was genre-defining, it came out almost 20 years ago, so it's hardly a favourable comparison.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

By comparison, mice receiving engineered T cells made from mature donor cells experienced only partial tumor control and developed graft-versus-host disease.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

Major donors such as Australia and China have, by comparison, spent hundreds of millions of dollars.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

Dad is in perpetual mourning for a son who died in the first Gulf War and considers John, in comparison, a milquetoasty pencil pusher.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

For comparison, at that time the population of all Europe extending to the Ural Mountains in Eastern Russia was about seventy million.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Typically, this will be the only market-price-based yield figure available when selecting bonds through a brokerage account, which helps simplify comparisons.

From MarketWatch Sep. 10, 2026

In 2018, as Beto O’Rourke was weighing a national campaign, the former president was the one drawing comparisons between them.

From Slate Sep. 9, 2026

Those comparisons could also have conservation value by helping researchers identify biological and ecological differences that may be important when developing region-specific management strategies.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

Blazo’s research shows that when sibling dynamics are colored by hostility and toxic comparisons, younger siblings experience “differentiation.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

It’s always surprising to me to see how often scientists thoughtlessly use synonyms in comparisons, because the cardinal principle of experimental design is the Rule of One Variable.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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