as in similar
having qualities in common
two comparable selections that are hard to choose between
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Recent Examples of comparable
Only one solar system comet, C/2002 V1 (NEAT), has given us anything comparable.
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Paul Sutter, Space.com, 9 Feb. 2026
While brands get sticker shock on ads for the big game, the Super Bowl is still important, even in a fragmented attention economy, Whitler said, and there’s no other comparable way to reach Americans en masse.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2026
With the trade of James Harden to Cleveland for Darius Garland, the curse will be Harden finally winning an NBA championship and Garland continuing to be injury prone and not playing comparable to his past.
—Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
The audit found that the money San Diego spends on police overtime was below average relative to comparable large cities in California.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
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Paul Sutter, Space.com, 9 Feb. 2026
While brands get sticker shock on ads for the big game, the Super Bowl is still important, even in a fragmented attention economy, Whitler said, and there’s no other comparable way to reach Americans en masse.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2026
With the trade of James Harden to Cleveland for Darius Garland, the curse will be Harden finally winning an NBA championship and Garland continuing to be injury prone and not playing comparable to his past.
—Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
The audit found that the money San Diego spends on police overtime was below average relative to comparable large cities in California.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comparable
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Before Thursday night’s ceremony, Stafford walked the red carpet with his wife and daughters, the young girls all wearing similar dresses.—
Gary Klein,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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Insights into Alzheimer’s Interestingly, the molecular tricks spiders use to spin their webs are similar to the sophisticated signaling processes found in human neurotransmitter and hormone receptors.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Feb. 2026
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The possibility of the Justice Department releasing the emails upon Congressional order seven years later would have been an unlikely scenario for Karp to imagine, though ironically there was an analogous set of circumstances in the Gruden case.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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Inoculation theory proposes that psychological inoculation – analogous to getting a medical vaccination – can immunize people against persuasive attacks.—
Bingbing Zhang,
The Conversation,
4 Feb. 2026
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The Accommodations On Mustique, no two villas are alike.—
Flora Stubbs,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Feb. 2026
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The rooms In the Agassiz mansion, no two rooms are alike.—
Todd Plummer,
Condé Nast Traveler,
4 Feb. 2026
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Worst mass shootings in Canada's history The attack on the village of Tumbler Ridge is among the worst shootings in the history of Canada, where such tragedies are relatively rare.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
12 Feb. 2026
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Owen doesn't recommend using these for cut roses, and warns that, used in inappropriate amounts, such mixtures can kill your cut roses prematurely.—
Peg Aloi,
The Spruce,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Comparable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comparable. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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