relative to

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"The UK's poor performance relative to other countries is mainly down to a lack of education, rather than employment, and particularly poor non-university routes into work," he says.

From BBC • May 30, 2026

“Having taken expected cuts off the table for now, we have already tightened policy considerably in response to the shock relative to what had been expected by markets,” Bailey said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

“It’s all relative to what they represent to the court.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

Because Earth's axis is tilted relative to its orbit, areas outside the tropics experience one yearly peak in solar radiation near the summer solstice.

From Science Daily • May 27, 2026

The head functions like an internal GPS system, and the position relative to the head and the tail gives each segment a unique “address” in the embryo.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee