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            "mean": "(often with to) Able to be compared (to).\nAn elephant is comparable in size to a double-decker bus.\nYou can't say that robbing a bank is like pickpocketing. The two are just not comparable.\n2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, \u201cReform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?\u201d, in RAIL, number 948, page 22:As yet, we don't know what the comparable figures will be like for the current financial year which ends in March 2022, but we can have a good stab at approximating them."
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            "mean": "(often with to) Similar (to); like.\n2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, \u201cSolvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance\u201d, in American Scientist:Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer."
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            "mean": "(mathematics) Constituting a pair in a particular partial order.\nSix and forty-two are comparable in the divides order, but six and nine are not."
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            "mean": "(grammar) Said of an adjective that has comparative and superlative forms.\nSynonym: gradable\n\"Big\" is a comparable adjective, since it can take the forms \"bigger\" and \"biggest\"; but \"unique\" is not comparable, except in disputed, but common, usage."
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            "mean": "Something suitable for comparison.\n2009 January 2, Fred A. Bernstein, \u201cCatskill Home Prices: How Low Will They Go?\u201d, in New York Times\u200e:And the appraiser said he couldn't come up with comparables, because there hadn't been any sales nearby in several months."
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