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2296 examples of Relative in a sentence

We can't risk alienating them by testing seatbelts relative to car seats."
He hardly moves at all, actually, relative to the other child.
Because if architecture is what I believe it to be, which is the built form of our cultural ambitions, what do you do when presented with an opportunity to rectify a situation that represents somebody else's cultural ambitions relative to us?
And it's by looking at the pattern of genetic variation, the pattern of these markers in people all over the world, and assessing the relative ages when they occurred throughout our history, that we've been able to construct a family tree for everybody alive today.
I've sat down with truck drivers to ask them about the self-driving truck, with people who, in addition to their full-time job, care for an aging relative.
For example, our brains were becoming larger relative the rest of our body.
So think back to what I said earlier: we thought that our brains were becoming larger relative to the rest of our body.
So what is it that is really so different about today's information technology relative to what we've seen in the past?
In a country where every other week, the ground quietly embraces the body of a woman murdered by a partner or a relative, we were loud, and we were heard.
And this has helped me understand why there is so much anger towards rich white women, especially in some parts of the feminist movement at the moment, because perhaps they're prone to seeing themselves as underprivileged relative to white men, and they forget how overprivileged they are relative to nonwhite women.
Well, it’s the relative importance.
If you think that that’s the relative importance, two to one, you’re wrong by a factor of ten.
And if you hefted those two things you might find that the relative scale of those is 20 to 1.
There’s only where it is relative to everything else that is.
So we have achieved an awful lot relative to the 20th century, and yet far too little relative to the gravity of the crime that is unfolding as we sit here, as we speak.
And if you look at the height of it and you compare it to Mount Everest, you see, it'll give you an idea of how large that Mount Olympus, you know, is, relative to Mount Everest.
To give you an idea of the size, you know, of that parachute relative to the people standing there.
But more generally, you know, one other example I think about this, which is great relative to the utopian idea.
In terms of psychographic, you know, the people in Second Life are remarkably dissimilar relative to what you might think, when you go in and talk to them and meet them, and I would, you know, challenge you to just do this and find out.
From this information, a tiny on-chip computer, containing a library of chemical fingerprints for different molecules, may figure out their relative concentrations, and help diagnose a specific illness.
So here in this study, they took a group of healthy adults and they limited them to six hours of sleep a night for one week, and then they measured the change in their gene activity profile relative to when those same individuals were getting a full eight hours of sleep a night.
They can even tell when information is coming from a close relative like a sibling or parent.
Its closest relative is, in fact, from mice, and so we would call this a xenotropic retrovirus, because it's infecting a species other than mice.
Now, the strength for those top 20 percent is starting to fade on a relative basis, but even more concerning is the education that the balance of people are getting.
They are literally playing with lasers relative to slingshots, relative to the squirt gun.
Because all movement is relative, Stella argues it would be just as valid to say her spaceship will stand still while the rest of the universe, including Terra, moves around her.
To be an inertial observer, one has to maintain a constant speed and direction relative to the rest of the universe.
No matter who you are or where you live, I'm guessing that you have at least one relative that likes to forward those emails.
From regular, relative skydiving I went on to freeflying.
Frantz Fanon, who was a psychiatrist from Martinique, said, "Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission and fulfill or betray it."
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