relative
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The strikes come nearly a week after renewed attacks between the US and Iran, which followed a month of relative calm between the warring sides.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
I have my doubts about making the Cayenne Electric the near twin of its gas-powered relative.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
“Broadcom’s recent relative underperformance reduced the hurdle, but the quarter still arrived in a market that is penalizing anything short of a step-function surprise.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
He sees scope for the company to report cloud revenue growth of 63% relative to a year earlier.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
If she wants to leave again, he says, she will have to provide a “complete understanding relative to her movements.”
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Huppert said it can require an “army of people”—bankers, relatives, friends and financial advisers—raising the same concerns in separate conversations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
This is all the more important because scammers often warn targets that relatives will try to interfere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Bonnetheads are small relatives of hammerhead sharks and are the only shark species known to show clear sex based differences in head shape.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
In it he visited Dollywood, a theme park created by Parton, where Dolly's relatives had traced the lineage of the Parton and Owens sides to Wales.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The Japanese soldiers try to position themselves as friends, but it’s a daunting task; thousands of Filipino guerrillas are in the mountains, and nearly everyone in Manila has relatives or friends among them.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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