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[ri-leyt] / rɪˈleɪt /




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For Hoda, it comes down to this: “We just need to know that you understand and you relate, and you’re with us and you’re fighting.”

From Salon Sep. 9, 2026

If you’re hoping to learn about what’s on display or how adjacent pieces relate, curb your enthusiasm.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

"We have to adopt certain principles of conscious food systems to make it more mindful, so young people can relate to the connection to the land in their hearts, not just the economics," he said.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

Mom—who has inhaled every Philippa Gregory novel, and whose superpower is the ability to relate any topic back to Henry VIII’s wives—corrected him instantly: “Claude, Katherine is with a K.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Pim always acts like the elderly father who once had the same fleeting impulses, but who can no longer relate to me as a friend, no matter how hard he tries.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

Its view is that the hurdle to higher volumes relates to Lynas’s own ability to produce more, rather than any difficulty in finding customers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

That “more challenging setup” relates to how these companies have come to be viewed as “winners” in artificial intelligence, rather than victims of high memory prices.

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

This preliminary study is the first to examine how vitamin D supplement intake relates to cognitive function specifically in a high-risk group experiencing both MCI and sleep disturbances.

From Science Daily Aug. 23, 2026

“It’s a reversal of California economic policy as it relates to the entertainment industry in an unhelpful and uncompetitive direction,” said Hilary Krane, CAA’s chief legal officer, in an interview.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

For example: Here’s an explanation of the rhetorical term syllepsis: “the use of a word that relates to, qualifies, or governs two or more other words but has a different meaning in relation to each.”

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

In a related development, Hernandez's parents filed a civil lawsuit against Burke on Friday, seeking monetary damages including burial and funeral expenses.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

Officials are sounding alarms about the potential health impacts related to this week’s oppressive humidity and intense heat in Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

The records include around 170,000 pages of reports related to air quality and health issues as well as the city’s response to 9/11, the city said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

The claim arrived hours after Tristan Buckmaster, a mathematician at New York University, and Levent Alpoge, who works at OpenAI competitor Anthropic, released their own AI-assisted work on three related equations.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

For everything in the universe to be governed by ratios, as the Pythagoreans hoped, everything that made sense in the universe had to be related to a nice, neat proportion.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Under its terms, the incentive allows a 35% to 50% credit on qualified expenses relating specifically to postproduction in California.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2026

In collagelike drawings at the start of each chapter, Ms. Power combines images relating to the chapter’s topic with classical motifs and lines of Homeric Greek.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

The Internal Revenue Service sees an emergency personal expense as an “unforeseeable or immediate financial need relating to necessary personal or family emergency expenses.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 28, 2026

Patterson has seven appeal grounds - the others relating to rulings on evidence and alleged unfairness by the prosecution - but this one, by the defence's own admission, is unprecedented.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

Our Converse at these Times is exceeding Diverting; him relating curious Stories of Animals or Roman Iniquity, & me relating Tales of the Village, the Cooperage, & the Mill.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson




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