How to Use compare and contrast in a Sentence
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The Guardians placed seven players on each list giving us a chance to compare and contrast.
—Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 28 Jan. 2023
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The goal was to compare and contrast how the challenges of today’s market, and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic changed their opinions.
—Outside Online, 5 Apr. 2021
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The program starts there to give students the ability to compare and contrast the past and present, as well as flip the narrative that the desert is inhospitable and lacks life.
—Megan Taros, azcentral, 6 May 2021
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The kitchen’s delicious dips are an opportunity to compare and contrast and graze the night away.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
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Union Market wine shop Vitis hosts a tasting of at least 15 rosés for everyone to compare and contrast.
—Celia Wren, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
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Order a few samples to compare and contrast your favorites, or go all-in on a full-size bottle that doubles as décor.
—Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 16 Nov. 2022
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Grab all your glassware, enlist your most generous guests to each bring a bottle, then compare and contrast.
—Mackenzie Chung Fegan, Bon Appétit, 17 Nov. 2022
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Brandon Crawford, an old hand at playoff races, is in a perfect position to compare and contrast the 2021 Giants with playoff teams of the past.
—John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Sep. 2021
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High school students will be expected to compare and contrast the ideas of different Black authors and leaders in writing.
—Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 31 Jan. 2022
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Aspiring filmmakers were advised to do their homework and to compare and contrast the original books with the finished films.
—Udita Jhunjhunwala, Variety, 26 Nov. 2022
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Check back often to help compare and contrast experiences and to find out what others see near you or find developing trends to watch.
—Caren Cooper, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2020
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To distill such information requires understanding of what is true about the world and being able to compare and contrast the statements and deeds of people against facts.
—Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2023
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This panel identified, tested, and scored a variety of dating apps in order to compare and contrast them.
—Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2023
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So instead of getting to compare and contrast the candidates, undecided voters are going to have to choose which TV channel to watch.
—Joel Mathis, TheWeek, 15 Oct. 2020
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While the chances of a running back, wide receiver or tight end being named MVP are extremely low, those odds can be used to compare and contrast top-tier players who share a position.
—Esten McLaren, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2021
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When the testing period ended, the team compiled all of their insights to compare and contrast each experience.
—Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 10 July 2023
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Michell, working with the splendid editor Joanna Crickmay, keeps ruffling time, inviting us to compare and contrast Elizabeth through the ages.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 26 Apr. 2022
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The long hours of picketing since the strike began May 2 have allowed writers plenty of time to compare and contrast the paradigm of linear television versus the streaming model.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 7 July 2023
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The cosmos changes slowly, so having a night sky record dating back more than 100 years could help provide data for astronomers to compare and contrast against modern-day observations.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2021
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For the first time, customers had a mountain of information to go through, compare and contrast with different options, and finally make their decisions.
—Tommaso Di Bartolo, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
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New texts provide researchers a chance to observe the evolution of biblical manuscripts and compare and contrast various versions with one another.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2016
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For computer science students, it’s been helpful to ask the AI to compare and contrast concepts to better understand course material.
—Will Oremus, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
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There’s no getting bored eating bite after bite of beef; the kitchen’s delicious dips — soy-mustard vinaigrette, smoked chile salt, the traditional sweet-hot ssamjang — are an opportunity to compare and contrast and graze the night away.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
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Inside this sleek tasting room, visitors are led through their flights — there are three to choose from, featuring Argonaut and Germain-Robin brandies — and encouraged to ask questions and compare and contrast the different varieties.
—Catherine Garcia, The Week, 6 Aug. 2023
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These twin asteroid missions have given scientists the unique opportunity to compare and contrast the rocky bodies.
—Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2020
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Travelers can compare and contrast deals on their own, or try using a service such as AutoSlash, which allows users to input any club or association memberships as well as their travel cards, and then finds deals.
—Allison Pohle, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2021
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Democratic voters trying to decide who should get the party’s nomination for Florida’s governor will have a chance to compare and contrast the two leading candidates this week.
—Roger Simmons, Orlando Sentinel, 31 July 2022
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One standard asks students to compare and contrast the goals and outcomes of agencies like the Freedmen’s Bureau with white supremacist terror groups, as if the people and causes of those agencies share the same moral legitimacy, said report authors.
—Nedra Rhone, ajc, 2 Mar. 2022
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But this study implemented genetic sequencing to fully compare and contrast between three different subtypes for the first time.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2022
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In a similar fashion, Ready to Beauty brought together more than 70 professionals from the general beauty market, to compare and contrast data findings.
—Sierra Leone Starks, Allure, 7 Apr. 2021
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