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Correspondent or proportionate to, as in Relative to its size, Boston has a great many universities , or It's important to get all the facts relative to the collision . Another form of this idiom is in or with relation to , meaning “in reference or with regard to,” as in Demand is high in relation to supply , or That argument changes nothing with relation to our plans for hiring workers . The usages with relative date from the second half of the 1700s, those with relation from the late 1500s.

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"Most reservoirs in the country are stores of water, there's lots of heavy machinery under there creating currents. They're very deep, so how cold they are, relative to how warm the day may be, is very surprising," he said.

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I'm looking at these young men, kids really, relative to me, and I'm thinking, I'm going to be 78 soon.

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“Twenty years ago, the United States was big enough relative to any other economy,” Furman said.

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“The lower your income is, the more reliant you are on imported goods from abroad, mostly because a larger fraction of your consumption is goods relative to services,” Furman said.

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California is at major risk of significant earthquakes because it sits on the edge of a tectonic plate boundary, where the Pacific plate — upon which sits San Diego, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara — is slowly moving northwest relative to the North American plate, upon which sits San Francisco, the Central Valley and Big Bear Lake.

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