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How does this compare with the earlier ones?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
The researchers compare it to approximately 40 million dump trucks' worth of matter, or about 1.3 trillion one-pound burritos every second.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
Keeping your balance on a revolving stage probably sounds easy when you compare it with battling demogorgons, but Gaten Matarazzo points out one big difference.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Advisers often recommend that these clients purchase annuities, which are insurance products that are complicated, hard to compare and have high commissions.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
However, to make any sort of measurement, you need a standard, a common yardstick, to compare to the size of the lines.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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He also shrewdly compares Musk to the protagonist of a 1930s film adapted from an H.G.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Because those results were unusually inconsistent, the researchers used phylogenomics, a method that compares hundreds of genes at the same time.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
That compares with a weighted forward price-to-sales estimate of 1.1 for the S&P Small Cap 600.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
He compares it to his enjoyment of chess: The computers are better than the humans, yet he still enjoys the pursuit of finding the right move.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
She compares her numbers to the computer’s numbers and punches in a bunch of decimals for our commission.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
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"The amount of oil that Russia has promised to release in October is a very small amount compared to world demand," Andy Lipow, an analyst at Lipow Oil Associates, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
According to the IMF, 32 economies now account for 95% of global growth, compared with 54 in the April edition of the WEO.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Dermatologists say it’s somewhat easier to treat acne on the face compared with the rest of the body because the face has more sweat glands and doesn’t dry out as easily.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Against a backdrop of relatively high cancellation rates and steep fares compared with previous decades, rail users could be forgiven for forming the impression that things are not working.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
When it had originally been erected, some people had even compared it to the Great Wall of China, although that was pushing it a bit.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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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
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
The company has described the result as "disappointing", but stressed that comparing individual years was complicated by rainfall levels.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Spasojevic hopes to be able to gain a clearer answer by comparing DNA samples from local donkeys to DNA collected from populations elsewhere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
As a biracial family, the kids exhibited an eclectic mix of physical characteristics and loved comparing which traits they got from what parent.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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