How to Use comparability in a Sentence

comparability

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  • Bloomberg has used the latter in this story to ensure comparability between the U.K. and EU units.
    — Nicholas Comfort, Bloomberg.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • With no elevation change and no traffic to get in the way, there are zero asterisks with the comparability of our results.
    — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Actual cash flow is free from many of these problems of comparability across firms and consistency over time.
    — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 17 May 2021
  • That’s contrary to what the IASB wants as carve-outs reduce the level of comparability for companies and investors across jurisdictions.
    — Mark Maurer, WSJ, 1 July 2021
  • That choice also worked out well for comparability's sake because, while there was a huge variety of toppings at the stores, the only pizza that was consistently available everywhere was cheese.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2020
  • However, when adjusted for comparability, backing out one-time items, fund from operations were flat across the two quarters at 47 cents.
    — baltimoresun.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • The desire for comparability prompts some of the most intensive or imaginative cleaning.
    — Robyn Autry, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2017
  • From a comparability standpoint, no one’s really touched that.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The system will analyze data to provide public health guidance, summarize and interpret national data for the states and the public and ensure data comparability across the country.
    — Robert Glennon, The Conversation, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Adjusted to exclude certain items affecting comparability, earnings rose 13% to 62 cents a share.
    — Annie Gasparro, WSJ, 26 July 2018
  • Addressing that risk requires ensuring that the standards and practices used by companies and investors to identify risk need to be standardized in a way that is both robust and enables comparability between companies and industries.
    — Felicia Jackson, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Investors also aren’t getting the benefits of comparability that would come with standardization.
    — Benjamin Zycher, National Review, 21 Apr. 2021
  • This includes steps by the official sector to improve the availability and comparability of granular geophysical data sets across jurisdictions, as well as the ease and robustness with which they can be aggregated.
    — Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes, 7 July 2021
  • Such alignment will enable comparability across jurisdictions, facilitate the disclosure process and help to avoid a patchwork of reporting practices.
    — Jeff Thomson, Forbes, 10 June 2022
  • Will self-selection into the three categories and subjective applications of these definitions lead to even less comparability than before?
    — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • Taken together, the president’s approval rating among midterm voters stood at about 45.5 percent, excluding the voters who did not express an opinion (for comparability, measures of the president’s approval will exclude voters without an opinion).
    — Nate Cohn, New York Times, 19 July 2019
  • With digital infrastructure, corporations and their suppliers can use digital tools that capture data in a standardized format at the point when the information is created and enable the comparability of that data across suppliers and buyers.
    — Anastasia Volkova, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Excluding items impacting comparability, adjusted earnings fell 52% to 25 cents a share, in line with analysts’ expectations.
    — Cara Lombardo, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2018
  • That report, conducted by IBFD, focused on comparability.
    — Nana Ama Sarfo, Forbes, 17 May 2021
  • Christine M. McCarthy, Disney’s chief financial officer, told analysts that the division experienced a 14 percent year-on-year increase in ad sales, after adjusting for comparability.
    — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2016
  • On the other hand, competition creates multiple standards, multiple data points and less comparability across companies.
    — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The researchers pulled the exam results from the Stanford Education Data Archive, which standardizes different states’ required annual exams to provide national comparability.
    — Avery Ellfeldt, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Mandating consistency and comparability in these metrics will improve the efficiency of such contracting arrangements.
    — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 12 June 2022
  • However, actual disclosure has been limited and closer to the indicators approach discussed later with inevitable issues related to comparability.
    — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Second, ensure national comparability and replicability so that measures like population counts can be tested and validated just as the agricultural extension system has successfully done.
    — Julia Lane, Scientific American, 26 Aug. 2020
  • And material miscalculations, flawed comparability adjustments, or inconsistent profitability comparisons could indicate that the IRS’s method was unreasonably applied.
    — Ryan Finley, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • This multiplicity adulterates data quality and hampers comparability between companies.
    — Rodrigo Tavares, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2022

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