relative
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From time to time I’ll make an exception and settle into a relative page-turner: nothing with cliffhangers or lots of hand-to-hand combat, mind you, but with a brisker narrative pace.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Semiconductors and hardware have outperformed during the rally, they say, with semiconductors hitting a new relative strength high and hardware trading near a two-year high, even as software remains weak.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026
All received bonuses of at least $100 million to defect from the PGA Tour, and Rahm, a relative latecomer to LIV Golf, received a reported $300- to $500-million bonus.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
In another unexpected result, the team identified DNA from Pterocarya, a relative of walnut believed to have vanished from north-western Europe about 400,000 years ago.
From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026
“I have made arrangements,” he said finally, “for you to be raised by a distant relative of yours who lives on the other side of town. His name is Count Olaf.”
From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket
Vocabulary lists containing relative
Hatchet
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Measurement and Data, List 1
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