Relative in sentence

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Okay, the closest living relative of the passenger pigeon is the band-tailed pigeon.

You'll see broad bacterial groups, and if you look at the shape of this pink lobe, it tells you something about the relative abundance of each group.

It's a corruption relative to the framers' baseline for this republic.

So the relative change that ET, Educational Technology, would make, would be far greater at the bottom of the pyramid than at the top, but we seem to be doing it the other way about.

Now, researchers have actually measured whistle complexity using information theory, and whistles rate very high relative to even human languages.

It's only relative to conscious agents that a piece of paper is money or that a bunch of buildings is a university.

Computation only exists relative to consciousness.

You go into these booths, you interview your grandmother or relative, you leave with a copy of the interview and an interview goes into the Library of Congress.

What do you do?" and I say "I study memory," they usually want to tell me how they have trouble remembering names, or they've got a relative who's got Alzheimer's or some kind of memory problem, but I have to tell them I don't study when people forget.

But the spirit and existence of the babushkas, whose numbers have been halved in the three years I've known them, will leave us with powerful new templates to think about and grapple with, about the relative nature of risk, about transformative connections to home, and about the magnificent tonic of personal agency and self-determination.

On the screen behind me, you see what we mean by value: outcomes that matter to patients relative to the money we spend.

So the reason why the human brain costs so much energy is simply because it has a huge number of neurons, and because we are primates with many more neurons for a given body size than any other animal, the relative cost of our brain is large, but just because we're primates, not because we're special.

They just want to experience as much as they can and don't have any idea about the relative acceptability of touching a ladybug versus a stinkbug.

Tabloid newspapers do not appear to advance the political citizenship of their readers, relative even to those who read no newspapers whatsoever.

With a passionate and committed team and the tremendous support of our partners, we grew dramatically, today, serving 20,000 small farmers, enabling them to double their yields and triple their net income relative to their peers.

Sure, I'll give you 100 reasons why coming out of my closet was harder than coming out of yours, but here's the thing: Hard is not relative.

But crucially, you can then compare their behavior to their equivalent but healthy counterparts, ideally from an unaffected relative.

It's a close relative of squid and octopus, and males have a hectocotylus.

Maybe one more other reason for the relative quick progress of the gay rights movement.

Astronomers were assuming that the Earth's orbit was large relative to the distance to the stars.

I disagree, and I think that it is equally a tool that humans use to enforce and encode our social and moral preferences and prejudices about status and power, which is why plutocrats like me have always needed to find persuasive stories to tell everyone else about why our relative positions are morally righteous and good for everyone: like, we are indispensable, the job creators, and you are not; like, tax cuts for us create growth, but investments in you will balloon our debt and bankrupt our great country; that we matter; that you don't.

And the truth is that there are very different kinds of luxury, and there's luxury that is relative for people that don't have that much.

Now, the second fact is more about wealth inequality, and here the central fact is that wealth inequality is always a lot higher than income inequality, and also that wealth inequality, although it has also increased in recent decades, is still less extreme today than what it was a century ago, although the total quantity of wealth relative to income has now recovered from the very large shocks caused by World War I, the Great Depression, World War II.

So this is the total value of wealth relative to income, and you can see that in particular in Europe, we are almost back to the pre-World War I level.

I'll tell you something else I learned, that the reason some drugs are legal and others not has almost nothing to do with science or health or the relative risk of drugs, and almost everything to do with who uses and who is perceived to use particular drugs.

Well, when we want to unpack the relative contributions of genes and the environment, what we can do is a twin study.

And the only way business is going to get single-minded about racial diversity is if it has a problem that is urgent and relative to somebody other than people of color.

For a person with an ACE score of four or more, their relative risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was two and a half times that of someone with an ACE score of zero.

These events are always difficult, I had a relative who was being a bit difficult, my mum was not in a good place, and I can remember finding myself just before the whole thing started telling this story about something that happened in a 1970s sitcom, and I just thought at the time, I don't know why I'm doing this, and what I realized I was doing was I was coming up with something from somewhere I could use to make her laugh together with me.

And to my surprise, they said my primary caregiver had been a distant relative of the family.

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