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To ensure comparability with the UK, European countries with populations under one million are excluded from per-capita comparisons of net migration and asylum applications.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

The company’s operating profit excluding items affecting comparability came in at 5.9 billion Swedish kronor, way ahead of company-compiled consensus expectations of 1.6 billion kronor, Bernstein says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

"Moreover, the variations in reference sleep duration underline the need for standardized definition in sleep research to enhance the comparability and generalizability of findings across diverse studies."

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2024

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on Thursday said consensus was growing in sovereign debt restructuring discussions on issues such as the comparability of treatment of private and public creditors.

From Reuters • Oct. 12, 2023

According to this criterion of comparability the reaction time to electric stimulation which is comparable with that to tactual is 172.1σ; and it is to be compared with 205.7σ.

From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Münsterberg, Hugo