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"People used to compare who had spent more," dance teacher Yuan told AFP at a new retail space in central Shanghai filled with luxury handbags, belts and jewellery items -- all second hand.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

Swain said this Santa Ana wind event doesn’t compare to those that fanned the flames of the Palisades and Eaton fires.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Investors should compare operating cash flow, capital spending and financing commitments over several quarters, allowing for the timing of construction and equipment purchases.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

In 2023 the Pew Research Center, whose birth-year brackets fill corporate slide decks, announced it would compare generations only with data on people at similar stages of life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

“Any markings? Anything unusual that would allow me to compare her description to the ones in my book?”

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

"But now everyone compares who got a better deal and spent less," the 24-year-old said at the two-storey warehouse-style store in the centre of the Chinese financial hub.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

Beyaz compares PPARD's opposing roles to "the force" in Star Wars.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

That compares to Jefferies’s expectation for 1H of 8% growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

When it comes to dominance, no one compares to the Real Madrid side who stormed to five successive European Cup triumphs after the competition began in 1955.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Shin compares his emergence to the slow growth of a fingernail.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

One thing she highlighted was the relative costs of property compared with city prices.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Goods exports to the US jumped 21 percent in August to $8.3 billion compared to the same month a year earlier, when India faced 50 percent tariffs.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

She added that they saw more people detained by immigration officials this summer compared with last year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

No wonder there were nearly 43 million HSAs as of June 30 compared with about 32 million at the end of 2021, according to new data from HSA consulting firm Devenir.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Cocoa smells like perfume compared to the odor coming off her.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

By comparing specimens preserved over many years, researchers were able to answer a fundamental question that would have been difficult to investigate through fieldwork alone.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

The incident drew comments on Facebook, comparing it to the films “El Mariachi” and “Desperado” in which Banderas plays a character who hides guns inside a guitar case.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

The latter doesn’t just compile your shopping list—it can buy the groceries for you, comparing prices at different store websites and placing a delivery order with the cheapest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

You say you want to stop comparing yourself to your friends, but I challenge you to reframe how you view comparison, itself.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Comparing the rainstorms I’d seen in California with what we drove through that August afternoon was like comparing a parakeet’s birdbath with the twelve-billion-gallon St. Francis Reservoir.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith