How to Use comparability in a Sentence

comparability

noun
  • Actual cash flow is free from many of these problems of comparability across firms and consistency over time.
    — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 17 May 2021
  • The print is harmonized across the euro area for comparability.
    — Ganesh Rao,chloe Taylor,jenni Reid, CNBC, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Most clubs pay little or no corporation tax – using pre-tax loss allows for greater comparability.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • To maintain comparability, the weights assigned to these criteria have been held constant.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • From a comparability standpoint, no one’s really touched that.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The figures are harmonized across the euro zone for comparability.
    — Sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The readings are harmonized to ensure comparability across the euro area.
    — Sophie Kiderlin,holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The readings are harmonized across the euro zone to ensure comparability.
    — Sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 3 Mar. 2025
  • With fewer companies required to report in the same way, the clarity and comparability of data will be reduced.
    — María Mendiluce, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The desire for comparability prompts some of the most intensive or imaginative cleaning.
    — Robyn Autry, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2017
  • Often, the quest for comparability has devolved into a checklist about company intent.
    — Daryl Collins, Fortune, 23 June 2023
  • For comparability, peer returns also reflect post-earnings one-day (1D) moves.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • That’s by design, to ensure comparability over time and with other organizations.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 12 July 2023
  • Citi is exemplary at reporting several versions of their emissions measure, which, in turn, enables some degree of cross-bank comparability.
    — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Investors also aren’t getting the benefits of comparability that would come with standardization.
    — Benjamin Zycher, National Review, 21 Apr. 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
  • The preliminary Monday print of the country's consumer price index is harmonized across the euro area for comparability.
    — Karen Gilchrist,jenni Reid,holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Inflation readings are harmonized in the euro area and in the European Union to ensure comparability.
    — Sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Adjusted to exclude certain items affecting comparability, earnings rose 13% to 62 cents a share.
    — Annie Gasparro, WSJ, 26 July 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Coca-Cola’s brief does not allege clear error in any of the court’s specific findings, only that the Tax Court’s overall comparability assessment was wrong.
    — Ryan Finley, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
  • On the other hand, competition creates multiple standards, multiple data points and less comparability across companies.
    — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
  • But the commissioner's argument is that profit potential has to be intrinsically similar to clear this comparability threshold.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • This model can be effective in driving efficiency, comparability, and predictable performance across a large portfolio of similar businesses.
    — Gustaf Lundberg Toresson, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026

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