relative
Example Sentences
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But when he suddenly dies and the family’s estate, Longbourn, passes to another male relative, Mary resigns herself to a life sentence beside a mother who can barely stand her.
From Salon • May 20, 2026
“And you aren’t raising rigor, just forcing relative grading.”
From The Wall Street Journal • 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
Cryptos tend to become less attractive relative to yield-bearing investments like bonds when borrowing costs rise.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
It seemed to him ‘as something divine that men could know the motions of the stars so accurately that they could long before foretell their places and relative positions’.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Vocabulary lists containing relative
Hatchet
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Measurement and Data, List 1
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