relative
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So when your relative calls claiming they’ve been kidnapped, you’ll know to hang up if they can’t name your first pet.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
A relative drove him to the airport, and he got there in time to make his 10:40 a.m. connection to Chicago.
From Slate • Apr. 19, 2026
“It is therefore likely that a resumption of balance-sheet reduction warrants additional reductions in the federal-funds rate relative to baseline projections,” he said.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026
In other words, the fund aims to more or less match the sector-by-sector makeup of the U.S. stock market, but within those sectors skews toward stocks that look cheap relative to their industry peers.
From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026
He could hop onto it and trek right on back to the RV, which, relative to his present surroundings, is the world’s lushest palace full of what Dad would call “first-world luxuries.”
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
Vocabulary lists containing relative
Hatchet
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A Graduation Lexicon
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Measurement and Data, List 1
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