How to Use comparator in a Sentence

comparator

noun

• Then and now, Porsche Macan Turbo is the closest comparator.
  — Mark Ewing, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
• One-third of the subjects, the comparator arm, will receive two full doses of Jynneos given 28 days apart.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 7 Aug. 2022
• For a comparison for that comparator, there are 47 Olympic-size pools in all of Australia.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2011
• But in a case-series design, there is no control or comparator group.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2022
• Over the next 24 weeks, this two-drug combo held down HIV as effectively as a three-drug regimen used as a comparator.
  — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 24 July 2019
• In all of these trials a benzodiazepine is the active comparator.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2012
• That goes to the fact that Burfict’s suspension is not occurring in a vacuum—it will be used as a comparator for other players who commit wrongful acts on the field.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• Tombaugh made his discovery using a device called a blink comparator, which relies on a simple yet elegant technique: look at two pictures of a star field and compare them.
  — Jesse Emspak, Smithsonian, 28 Aug. 2017
• For Southwest, an obvious comparator is Ryanair in Europe.
  — Ben Baldanza, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• Poljak says that Björnsson’s feat is a good comparator because the load on your legs and core muscles in a strong gravitational field feels pretty much like carrying a large weight on your shoulders.
  — Michael Allen, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2018
• Polyglot India is the nearest international comparator to the EU, but there too debates rage over whether to adopt a sole official language to add coherence.
  — The Economist, 15 June 2019
• Is the clinical trial placebo controlled or has an active comparator?
  — Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
• None of those vaccinated developed the disease after 10 days, even as 16 people in the unvaccinated comparator group did, according to a report in the Lancet.
  — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 19 May 2018
• Natanson says scientific results, patient safety, and the informed consent process all suffer when a usual-care comparator is absent.
  — Charles Piller, Science | AAAS, 12 Aug. 2021
• One room over, Wilson shows me the most impressive new toy in the group's digitization toolkit, one that arrived just three days earlier: A room-sized analog artifact known as an optical comparator.
  — Adam Fisher, WIRED, 10 July 2018
• Instead of considering the best comparator compound and the easiest way to copy past programs, drug developers need to become more nimble and innovative.
  — Richard Ghalie, STAT, 26 Dec. 2019
• In med-tech, clinical trials typically use the company’s own past products or a statistical benchmark as a comparator.
  — Joe Carlson, Star Tribune, 14 Oct. 2020
• The one proposal that passed muster with the board, on a 9-6 vote, was another attempt to develop an alternative to human fetal tissue, using as a comparator fetal tissue that has already been obtained and stored in a biorepository.
  — Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 18 Aug. 2020
• Traditionally, the safety and effectiveness of new cancer therapies is demonstrated through randomized clinical trials—studies in which patients are randomly assigned to receive either an experimental new treatment or a comparator therapy.
  — Amy Abernethy and, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2017

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