compared to

idiom

variants or compared with
: in relation to (something else) : measured or judged against (something else)
I'm a slob compared to my roommate.
This rain is nothing compared to what we got yesterday.
Today's quiz was easy compared with the last one.

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The Season 2 finale drew 17 million global views (up 41 percent from Season 1), while the season overall tracked 56 percent ahead in streaming numbers compared to its predecessor, according to Paramount Global. Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025 Giugiaro had considerably less to work with compared to his father's original. New Atlas, 5 Apr. 2025 The entire episode was simply bizarre to outsiders to whom South Korea embodies democratic values and technological prowess—not to mention zeitgeist-defining cultural exports from K-pop to Squid Game—when compared to the Stalinist North. Charlie Campbell, Time, 4 Apr. 2025 Coffee made in workplace brewing machines, meanwhile, tended to have significantly higher diterpene concentrations compared to all home-brewing methods except boiling, the researchers found. Jamie Ducharme, Health, 4 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for compared to

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