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Add back the Ks and BBs, and voila, each team receives an offensive and pitching rating, relative to league average of 100.
—Tony Blengino, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
One area where Nike has grown relative to Lululemon is their valuation multiple.
—Michael Khouw, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2024
Then the final choices were determined by a variety of economic and lifestyle criteria, including housing costs relative to the rest of the South; taxes; and the prevalence of restaurants, hospitals, and colleges.
—Ashley Cusick, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2024
The exact weight that the most recent presidential result gets relative to the second-most recent is decided by our model based on what has best predicted states' future partisanship in the past.
—G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 23 Oct. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1649, in the meaning defined above
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“Relative to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/relative%20to. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
relative to
preposition
: in relation to
the angle of the pole relative to the ground
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