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"We have to extract a DNA profile from their relatives and then compare".
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
"We know that when we compare ourselves online and try to live up to these trends, we tend to scrutinise our appearance more and feel less satisfied with how we look," she says.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The researchers compare those levels to the rungs of a ladder.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
Big banks are cautioning that the sequel won’t compare.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
I could go swimming with great white sharks and it wouldn’t compare to this.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
Yang compares the behavior to water flowing over a waterfall.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
RBC’s 2028 estimate for reported return on tangible equity of 19.9% compares with Santander’s guidance of over 20%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
This is illustrated in the above chart, which compares each of these ETFs to the S&P 500 over the past one-, three-, five- and seven-year periods.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
That compares with 5.1% in California and 4.1% for the United States.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
I wonder if he went to the Indian school up in Pennsylvania, and if he did, how it compares to Miss Preston's.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
Little League said it had 1.5 million baseball players in the U.S. this year, compared with about 2.2 million the organization estimated in 2006.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
She produced 12 winners and made just 11 unforced errors, compared to her opponent's 24, converting five of her 14 break points with some impressive groundstrokes.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
The absorption lines were "blueshifted" compared with the redshift of the galaxies themselves.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
In California, gasoline averaged $6.40 a gallon on Friday, compared with $4.65 a gallon one year ago, according to AAA.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Mobilizing a nation’s armed forces has been compared to drawing a gun.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
A similar pattern emerges when comparing Ford and Hyundai-Kia, which are third and fourth, respectively.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
So an active corporate-bond fund would look a lot better by comparing itself to the Agg instead of to a corporate index.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
When comparing Scotland with the rest of Europe, NRS measures the death rate among 15-64 year olds - which was 277 per million in 2025.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
By comparing the genomes of three Clusia species, the team traced how ancient genome duplication followed by extensive genetic reorganization helped produce different forms of CAM.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 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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