compared with neighbors Myanmar, Vietnam, and Laos, Cambodia appears to have a blossoming civil society.
In the week starting Dec. 22, arrests were down 66 percent compared to the same week in 2013.
And in informal talks, Chinese leaders have compared hackers on both sides to unruly children who can only barely be controlled.
A staggering 80 percent of college women do not report the crime to police, compared to 67 percent of non-students.
An artistic style that has been compared to Cubist Expressionism was also discovered across the site.
The supper-table brought our party together, and they compared notes.
There is hostility to it still, but mild as compared with that felt by our great-great-grandfathers.
Little enough, lady, compared with those who were my teachers.
Our journey must now be compared to the descent from cloud-land in a balloon.
All the wealth in the world, my soul, is nothing to me compared to you.
late 14c., from Old French comparer (12c., Modern French comparer), from Late Latin comparare "to liken, to compare" (see comparison). Related: Compared; comparing. To compare notes is from 1708. Phrase without compare (attested from 1620s, but similar phrasing dates to 1530s) seems to be altered by folk etymology from compeer "rival."
