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compare

[kuhm-pair] / kəmˈpɛər /




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However, as this is happening so early in the season, there are few historical examples to compare with and it could throw current winter forecasts into even more uncertainty.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

In the first study, we were able to compare women who underwent infertility treatment with those who didn’t, as well as examine women before and after they first received treatment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Some of the harms included depression, anxiety, addiction and body image issues as young people compare themselves to others on social media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Yet 65% of Medicare beneficiaries did not compare their Medicare coverage options during last year’s open-enrollment period, KFF found.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

West Oakland High did not compare to where Esperanza went to school.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

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

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

They changed the molar ratio, which compares the number of molecules of each substance, from 1:4000 to 1:8000.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

That compares with a profit of $475.6 million, or 18 cents a share, a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

It simply flips the S&P 500’s forward price/earnings ratio upside down, converting it to a yield, and compares it with the benchmark 10-year U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

"I . . . uh . . . I'm doing an experiment. You know—how feeding meat to an animal compares with just giving it pellets and stuff."

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

"Our liking and wanting for high-fat foods are greater later in the day compared to low-fat foods," says Beaulieu, who splits her time between the University of Leeds and University of Moncton in Canada.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

On a per-share basis, earnings were 52 cents a share, compared with 47 cents a share the year prior.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

That’s compared to wages, which are taxed from 10% to 37%.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

With a crowded field of Democrats in the June primary, Shaw had an opening as a Republican and finished first with 22.6% of the vote, compared with Barrera’s 20.3%.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

The crew had seen pressure before, but none of it compared with what they were seeing now.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

A recent online debate was sparked between fans comparing People magazine's choice for 2026's sexiest man alive, The Pitt actor Noah Wyle, with the 2025 winner, Wicked star Jonathan Bailey.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

The collaboration investigated particles containing a charm quark and a lighter quark, comparing how strongly their production was suppressed in oxygen and neon collisions.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

Clad in a newsboy hat, Sonia-Wallace sees his practice as being as much about performance as the poetry, comparing his work to that of a pastor or tarot reader.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

The problem is that it muddies the relationship between stocks and bonds, comparing a nominal yield with a short-term P/E at a time of near-record corporate profit margins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

After I’d been meeting with Professor Steinberg for a month, I wrote an essay comparing Edmund Burke with Publius, the persona under which James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay had written The Federalist Papers.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover


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