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But even that number looks meager in comparison to some other figures thrown around the league these days.
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Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2025
In comparison to the Super Bowl, where such ads cost around $8 million, the Daytona 500 offers a more accessible yet high-profile advertising opportunity.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
The company’s founder and CEO, Julian Kheel, told Afar that according to the company’s data, Alaska miles are worth the most of any airline, at 1.45 cents apiece (for comparison, Delta SkyMiles are typically only worth 1.1 cents each).
—Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 13 Feb. 2025
That total would have been much higher had China chosen to slap an equal 10% tariff on all US goods exported there, which, by comparison, totaled over $130 billion last year.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
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Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2025
In comparison to the Super Bowl, where such ads cost around $8 million, the Daytona 500 offers a more accessible yet high-profile advertising opportunity.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
The company’s founder and CEO, Julian Kheel, told Afar that according to the company’s data, Alaska miles are worth the most of any airline, at 1.45 cents apiece (for comparison, Delta SkyMiles are typically only worth 1.1 cents each).
—Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 13 Feb. 2025
That total would have been much higher had China chosen to slap an equal 10% tariff on all US goods exported there, which, by comparison, totaled over $130 billion last year.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comparison
Noun
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Use simple analogies and relatable examples, and avoid jargon or complicated terms.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes,
18 Feb. 2025
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Forgive one more analogy to music: Wagner has some of this power, too (in fact, a lot of it).—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
31 Jan. 2025
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Taking the most durable player — Miles Bridges — out of the equation, the trio of Williams, LaMelo Ball and Brandon Miller played together in just 18 of a possible 130 games combined over the past two seasons.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
7 Feb. 2025
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But there was another critical part of the equation.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Her characters, buffeted by the era’s fluctuating currencies, inherited this crisis of equivalence.—
Laurence Scott,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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The Madness can traffic in false equivalences—a common pitfall of political fiction that values moderation as an end in itself.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
28 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Litchfield’s Adult Basic Education program offers inmates at the Meeker County Detention Center an opportunity to use that time wisely – either brushing up on basic skills or working toward a high school equivalency diploma.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Correlating the removal of a platform’s fact-checking with benefits to creators such as lower likelihood of a shadow ban—as Lessin does—could very well be a false equivalency, given the algorithms determining content distribution have never been transparent in the first place.—
Cherie Brooke Luo,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The city proposed market rate adjustments and COLA to maintain parity with other cities.—
Julia Fomby,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
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The drop, combined with an 18% increase in drinking rates among Americans over age 55 during the early 2000s, has brought the two groups’ rates of alcohol consumption nearly to parity.—
Jacob Turcotte,
The Christian Science Monitor,
5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Can association’s new tree block owner’s ocean view? ASK IRA: Did the Heat do right by protecting their youth in the Jimmy Butler trade?—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
7 Feb. 2025
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The Cosmos livestock shipping association held its annual meeting Saturday afternoon.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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While this wasn’t specifically an attack on Gmail, the tight Workspace linkage between Google Calendar and Gmail makes this first and foremost a Gmail threat.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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To date, though, no clear linkage has been established between song characteristics and male reproductive success.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
10 Jan. 2025
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