Meanings
- Synonym of by comparison.
San Jose then had the best commercial art department in the state; Stanford's was mediocre in comparison.
2018 August 7, Francine Falk-Allen, Not a Poster Child: Living Well with a Disability—A Memoir, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN1 more example
Lenin's retroactive view of history was of course nothing in comparison to the systematic falsification of Stalin's day, when it had to be shown at all costs that the current assessment of individuals and political movements was equally valid for all past years.
1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 523Synonyms: by comparison
Synonyms & antonyms
prepositional phraseSynonym of by comparison.
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