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The state record brown, by comparison, weighed 26 pounds 8 ounces, and it was caught in 1987 from upper Twin Lakes.
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Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 22 May 2025
For comparison, Disney’s experiences division, which includes parks, represented 37% of the company’s revenue in fiscal 2024, smaller than its entertainment business, but accounted for nearly 60% of its net income.
—Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 22 May 2025
For comparison, no player in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals — between the Timberwolves and Thunder — ran more than Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s 14,200 feet.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 22 May 2025
For comparison, the first receiver taken in the draft, Tetairoa McMillan, had seven drops last season.
—Matt Barrows, New York Times, 22 May 2025
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Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 22 May 2025
For comparison, Disney’s experiences division, which includes parks, represented 37% of the company’s revenue in fiscal 2024, smaller than its entertainment business, but accounted for nearly 60% of its net income.
—Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 22 May 2025
For comparison, no player in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals — between the Timberwolves and Thunder — ran more than Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s 14,200 feet.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 22 May 2025
For comparison, the first receiver taken in the draft, Tetairoa McMillan, had seven drops last season.
—Matt Barrows, New York Times, 22 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comparison
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When these optimization processes lead to outcomes that disregard human values or well-being in subtle yet significant ways, the analogy to psychopathic tendencies becomes less of a hyperbolic statement and more of a cautionary observation.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025
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So Penders goes for the colorful analogy, me for the random Hamlet references.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
19 May 2025
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Baseball’s injury epidemic is part of the equation.—
Cody Stavenhagen,
New York Times,
29 May 2025
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An excerpt from our conversation is later in this newsletter. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Ever since companies began to use enterprise AI, advocates have continually said that the technology wasn’t out to replace jobs, and that humans would always be a necessary part of the equation.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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Richter seems to reject the notion of typology altogether, pushing instead the idea of visual equivalence to its limits, exposing how images (regardless of weight or meaning) can be trivialized through repetition.—
Nargess Banks,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
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Trump himself has suggested moral equivalence between the two sides, claiming Ukraine was at fault for provoking the war, that President Zelensky was illegitimate and that the U.S. should recognize Russia’s annexations of Ukrainian territory.—
Eric Green,
Time,
30 Apr. 2025
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Leaving prison with $20 and a high school equivalency certificate, Fauteck straightened up.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
28 May 2025
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The aforementioned traditionalists adopt Tether’s strategy, using US dollar deposits and Treasuries to maintain the 1:1 equivalency.—
Earl Carr,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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This is the price of success in a single-entity league with a convoluted salary structure bent on achieving parity at the expense of dynasties.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 May 2025
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And in this era of aprons and attrition, parity is paramount.—
Mirjam Swanson,
Oc Register,
19 May 2025
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The name of the president of the harbor commission, Pietro Di Carlo, a leading citizen of San Pedro, had come up in the investigation in connection with a contract with a troubled development company that Di Carlo had had associations with.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2025
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Upstream Focus is Sourcing Journal’s series of conversations with suppliers, associations and sourcing professionals to get their insights on the state of sourcing, innovations in manufacturing and how to improve operations.—
Sarah Jones,
Sourcing Journal,
23 May 2025
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Fort Worth City Council members agreed April 22 to spend tens of thousands of dollars studying the potential economic impact of a high-speed rail linkage to downtown.—
Jaime Moore-Carrillo,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 Apr. 2025
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Especially given the linkage between vodka and the USSR in Cold War imagery, the spirit became cooly subversive in a way whiskey couldn’t match.—
Made by History,
Time,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Comparison.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comparison. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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