relative to

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Children also have higher respiratory rates than adults, as well as larger lung surface area relative to their body size, resulting in higher doses of pollution per breath.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

ABS uses tracking technology — 12 Hawk-Eye cameras — to determine the precise location of a pitch relative to a batter’s specific strike zone.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

This represents a 55% price-to-earnings-growth discount relative to its megacap technology peers and places the stock one standard deviation below its 10-year average, Nowak wrote.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

Private credit is comparable to subprime, which at its peak totaled roughly $1.5 trillion, about 15% of all residential mortgages, though that was much larger relative to the economy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

When I was about ten years old, I was outside of our church with my friends, one of whom had brought a visiting relative to the service.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson