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The authorities' silence on the details - the specific charges, notably whether they involve intent and how the numbers compare with past seasons - rules out any meaningful comparison with previous years, it argues.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Wyle: Oh, I thought you were going to compare it to last year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Many state public-health labs, funded through government budgets and grants, lack the resources to perform genetic sequencing to trace and compare outbreak strains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

Scientists must compare known fossils, determine how individual bones connected, and reconstruct missing portions using evidence from related animals.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

It’s cruel, to compare Ollie to his brother right now, but I can’t help it.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

To the contrary, the entire discussion on YouTube was about Grande’s body, not the video’s visuals or the music, a lovely torch song where she compares herself to a “petal in the pavement.”

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

This compares with the $3.2 billion it reported in the first quarter and the $5.11 billion analysts had expected, according to a company-compiled consensus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

NDR’s asset-allocation model recommends a 70% allocation to stocks, 20% to bonds and 10% to cash, which compares with benchmark weights of 55%, 35% and 10%, respectively.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

This compares to 704 the previous year and was the fewest since at least 2021.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

In general, if one compares a set of neighboring paths, the phases or positions in the cycle will differ greatly.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

When women do invest in stocks and shares, analysis by Fidelity International found that over three years its female personal investing customers recorded cumulative returns of 50%, compared with 47% for men.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

I suspect the panic in the Treasury market would be nothing compared to the panic in pretty much everything else.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

AST SpaceMobile reported a wider second-quarter net loss of $230.9 million, or 77 cents a share, compared with a loss of $99.4 million, or 41 cents a share, a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

When they compared the results with similar observations of Earth, they found a major difference.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

“Capreo” now cost just 98 cents a vial, compared to the $29 a vial that the Brigham pharmacy once quoted Farmer.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

Retirement plans are not created equally, which means comparing your account balance to someone else’s will give you no real winner or loser.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

He asked them where they procured the redwood to renovate their shingle roof and the trio spent the rest of the morning excitedly discussing restoration techniques and comparing notes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

By studying numerous specimens and carefully comparing small anatomical differences, the researchers reassessed how these groups are related.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

A. I was comparing notes with Adam Chandler, our food columnist and resident expert on food and dining trends, and he has noticed a hypervigilance around what people are serving—from chefs and caterers to influencers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

“We’re comparing the weight of dry cloth to the weight of wet cloth.”

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko