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Sporting a blue workout tank top and black shorts, the four-year resident of the community said the heat doesn’t really compare to the humidity she’s experienced when she lived in Illinois.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Check with several lenders to compare interest rates and other loan terms.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
He wants to launch an Insurer Scorecard, with a tool to let Floridians compare “rates on automobile, health, and home insurance.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
We often compare Gen Z’s present to older generations’ memories instead of their reality.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Now compare all this with the Appalachian Trail.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
I asked him how running an F1 team compares to running a company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The table below compares the model’s predictive power with that of the simple E/P ratio, focusing on a statistic known as the r-squared over the last 50 years.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
This compares with 25.1 billion kroner in 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
He wrote on Substack that "nothing compares to losing both of them at the same time and, on top of that, having your brother be at the centre of it".
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
And yet none of it compares to what I am about to do in the Dauntless compound.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
His athleticism underpins that game as he reached a top speed of 34.5km/h in 2024-25, compared with 30.5km/h for Casemiro, and averaged 8.2 defensive actions per 90.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Within the 20-city index, Chicago saw prices rise the most, up 6.9% in June as compared with a year before.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Anthropic could aim to raise as much as $100 billion in the offering, people familiar with the matter said, compared with SpaceX’s $86 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Researchers found that vaccinated adults had a 24% lower risk of dementia compared with those who did not receive the vaccine.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
My mother is pretty laid back, but compared to my father, she’s a nervous wreck.
From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli
These strange laws of existence provide the framework for Ullom’s excellent social observations, zeroing in on each character’s relationship to this new world and comparing it to the old one.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
"By comparing ecological ways of life for extinct and modern species, we can understand how patterns of adaptive evolution have changed through time and what factors shaped the modern biosphere."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
“If we’re comparing this to large language models, this is like GPT-2,” he adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
In the chart below, housing economist Paul Cheshire puts it starkly, comparing the rise in egg prices with house prices over the past 71 years.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
I took a bite and focused on comparing it to the others I’d tasted.
From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 1
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