relative to
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Brazil’s output in the first four months of the year, for example, rose by 800,000 barrels a day relative to a year before.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
UBS analyst Erika Najarian wrote recently that she’s “befuddled” by the underperformance of JPMorgan stock relative to Goldman and Morgan Stanley, given JPMorgan’s exposure to similar banking and capital markets trends.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
“Everything is much more contemporary relative to what was created more than 40 years ago, but it’s still very true to the origin story and to the DNA of the brand.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
The comet releases exceptionally large amounts of carbon dioxide relative to water, far exceeding the levels commonly measured in solar system comets.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026
The observed pattern of behaviour of the planets is also linked, in the Copernican model, to their distances from the Sun relative to the distance of the Earth from the Sun.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
