relative to

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At trial, Musk told jurors that his AI start up xAI was small relative to OpenAI which is also expected to sell shares to the public imminently.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

“And I think what people miss about that is these companies were so cheap relative to what you could make out of them that it didn’t make any difference what oil did,” he said.

From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026

That’s after the Falcon had lowered the cost to reach space by more than 95%, relative to NASA’s Space Shuttle.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

“Still, both leisure and business travel intentions are up relative to 2-yrs ago,” the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

This map shows the homelands of the Pequot Nation, relative to neighboring nations in what are currently called the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz