comparable

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“It would pull the company in the opposite direction to where we want and need to go, which is towards simpler, standardized and comparable reporting,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

The average refund was $3,521 as of late last month, which is $351 larger than refunds at a comparable time a year ago.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

Multi-target missions were completed in just 12 to 23 minutes, while a comparable human-guided mission took 41 minutes.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

Of course, measles and a cold are not remotely comparable, which is precisely the issue with serious diseases that were once eradicated becoming endemic.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

The VLA is able to resolve or discriminate fine detail in the radio regions of the spectrum comparable to what the largest ground-based telescopes can do in the optical region of the spectrum.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan