relative
Example Sentences
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After their rental in North Carolina was condemned, the daughter said, they came with her husband and brother to Los Angeles to live with a relative, only to be rebuffed.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
"With additional observations of this planet, we could establish the relative abundance of these various gases in its atmosphere," Hu said.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
“The baseline divorce rate in my sample is only around 4%, so this represents a large relative increase of about 50% to 60% relative to the baseline mean,” Nguyen said.
From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026
They laid out a devastating case that Europe is losing its mojo relative to America.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
SABIO, MARIA: Ved, please provide all hypotheticals relative to the following question: What repercussions would occur if Ridge Sabio traveled back in time to Red Knot, Delaware, in the 1990s and arrived safely?
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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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