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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of compare.

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Examples

  • How is President Obama doing at this point in his term compared to the two presidents right before him?

    CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2009 2009

  • Xe a gender neutral pronoun for any readers unfamiliar with the term compared the gender binary to dividing fruit into only two categories.

    Intersexuality in Gaza « Gender Across Borders 2009

  • Perhaps more significant is the way in which Insomniac Games has upped the scope and pacing of the title compared to the fairly monotonous slog which was the first

    Latest from PALGN 2009

  • President Obama even plead his case to the Republican minorities a few days into his term compared to Bush who only did it twice in eight years.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2009

  • Technically, Hemingway offered Dietrich a dehortation, a rarely used but quite proper English term compared to an exhortation, which attempts to persuade people to do something, a dehortation is an attempt to dissuade people from a course of action.

    'Neverisms': 11 Things You Should Never Do, Never Say, Never Forget (PHOTOS) 2011

  • What would be nice for the Dems to do is have some press releases comparing what they have done this term compared to what the GOP did in the last couple of terms.

    Check Out The RNC's Whole Case Against Pelosi -- All In One Tidy Memo 2009

  • I actually love this title compared to Live Free or Die Hard, and I admit I didn't when I first heard it, now though I think it's spot on.

    Filmstalker: Fox says title is Die Hard 4.0 2007

  • There being very few new boys this term compared with last, he found himself by no means neglected in his walks abroad, and it required all his wariness to elude the gins and pitfalls prepared for him.

    Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton Talbot Baines Reed 1872

  • If you compare what he has accomplish­ed in just one term compared to many of his fellow Senators from both parties who have been there for years, it becomes obvious.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • The Galaxy defense has solidified considerably this term compared to the traffic cone setup they had working last season.

    USSoccerPlayers 2009

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