compare
verb (used with object)
to examine (two or more objects, ideas, people, etc.) in order to note similarities and differences.
are comparing
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present progressiveof compare.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Instead, researchers are comparing traditional claims with modern biological findings to see where they overlap.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 7, 2026
Today, the only people in the lobby are a group of women with a brindle dachshund who are comparing enneagrams.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026
You are comparing yourself to others, and that’s a mug’s game.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2025
Veterans of relief operations, however, are comparing the crisis to the situation in 1984, when a combination of drought and war caused a famine that killed up to a million people.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2024
Even the women who are comparing different widths of Valenciennes at the lace-counter all have something of that vision in their eyes—or else one does not see the ones who haven't.
From Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort by Edith Wharton
