How to Use comparison in a Sentence
comparison
noun- I don't think comparisons of her situation and mine are appropriate.
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That isn’t very fast, at least in comparison to the speed of light.
—Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 28 Dec. 2022
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By comparison, the broad S&P 500 has popped more than 5% month to date.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 29 Nov. 2024
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Both appearances drew comparisons to Richard Nixon in a suit and wingtips on the beach.
—Rebecca Davis O’Brien, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2023
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There have been unfair comparisons with those movies to past movies that opened the summer.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 14 June 2024
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The goal of the comparison was to get an idea of the scale of emissions of different sizes of LLMs and what impacts them.
—Sasha Luccioni, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2023
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The comparisons between the gritty Puka Nacua and the out-of-nowhere Cooper Kupp are inevitable and valid.
—Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
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That’s downright balmy in comparison to many other parts of the state.
—oregonlive, 22 Dec. 2022
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The last closure of the Brent Spence Bridge, by comparison, lasted 41 days.
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 28 Nov. 2024
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By comparison, the state has recorded 120 flu deaths since late last year.
—Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Mar. 2024
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In terms of looks, the Skylight is a bit unassuming in comparison to the Aura frames.
—Valerie Walsh, wsj.com, 20 Nov. 2023
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The price is a little bit on the expensive side, in comparison to some of the other products on this list.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
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By comparison, the same buyer who needed to save 3% of the purchase price would require two and half years, or 31 months, to save that amount.
—Anna Bahney, CNN, 25 Aug. 2023
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In comparison to the 102-degree heat outside, the air inside the restaurant felt cold.
—Daniel Gonzalez, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2024
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In comparison, the same amount of cannabis once heated contains 10 mg THC.
—Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024
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In comparison, the A.I. large language model took a whole two months to accomplish the same feat.
—Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 10 July 2023
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By comparison, one quantum dot is to a soccer ball as a soccer ball is to the planet Earth.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Oct. 2023
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That pales in comparison to the thousands of responses to GameStop posts during the height of meme mania.
—Scott Deveau, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2022
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That pales in comparison to the U.S., where startups raised $120 billion.
—Ryan Browne, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
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The water waves in Martin's hair appeared to be a lighter chocolate hue in comparison to the rest of her darker brown hair.
—Gabi Thorne, Allure, 1 Mar. 2023
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The Eras Tour film hype had drawn comparisons to other major pop culture events at the theaters this year such as the Barbie film.
—Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2023
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These stats pale in comparison to New York’s tony enclaves.
—Dana Givens, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2022
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Sure, Taylor Swift is not William Shakespeare — but isn’t the comparison making more and more sense?
—Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2023
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By comparison, a newborn human brain is roughly the size of an adult great ape’s brain.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2024
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Our moon, for comparison, is about 27 percent of Earth’s size.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
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Still, in comparison to other soccer teams, the England team has been given the short hand.
—Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 12 July 2024
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Overall, the Eye should be able to power through the next few months well enough, even if year-to-year Nielsen comparisons probably won’t be pretty.
—Vulture, 21 Sep. 2023
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The comparison is pungent but inapt: Archival work is not death work.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 14 May 2024
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For comparison, the diameter of our moon is 2,159 miles.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
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Teams, by comparison, has risen to 320 million monthly users.
—Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 28 Feb. 2025
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