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[kuhm-pair] / kəmˈpɛər /




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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

His parents compare notes with others whose adult children are struggling to find work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 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

For the first time, scientists could directly compare rocks collected from both lunar hemispheres.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

“If the Major has never met a musk ox while in sight of a great black-backed gull, he has nothing to compare, you see.”

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

This compares with a pre-war baseline of some 17 million barrels per day.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

That compares with a profit of $170.8 million, or $1.76 a share, a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

I know what a brain looks like, and generally what each region of it does, but I don’t know how mine compares to others.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

The Vanguard Dividend Growth Fund is up 55% over the past four years, compared with a return of 126% for the S&P 500, through Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

The consumer-price index accelerated to 3.1% in September compared with a year earlier, Statistics Canada said Monday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

But, he added, colleges are traditionally structured to boost economic returns for their students as compared with high-school graduates.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

In the first half of 2026, hours watched on Netflix increased only 2% compared to a year earlier, according to the streamer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

But my patches are still really small compared to those people’s.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

Clarkson alleged that an employee spoke to her in a condescending manner after revealing that a similar item would cost $15,000, comparing the encounter to the infamous shopping scene in “Pretty Woman.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 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

By comparing the fossil with other prehistoric specimens and living animals, the team determined that Megacauda sungei belonged to the docodonts, an extinct group of early mammal relatives known as mammaliaforms.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

The Cockroach party started as a viral online movement in response to the chief justice’s comments comparing unemployed young people to cockroaches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Emily had said she’d help James research ciphers, but first she wanted to finish comparing the two editions of The Gold-Bug.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman


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