be ranged against/with something/someone

Examples of ranging

ranging

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

In the epidemiological literature, however, insomnia tends to be defined using a variety of approaches, ranging from rigorous diagnostic algorithms, to single questionnaire items.
The average treatment slot was reported as 20 min (ranging from 15 to 60 min).
The material within the book is varied in character, ranging from valuable scholarly analysis to sermons, and to that which tends towards the hagiographical.
This varied between and within the studied fields, the mean values ranging from 99-134 mg/g.
The level of infestation varied with location ranging from 3.0 to 97.2 flies per kg of fruit.
The measure consists of 20 items with four response options ranging from generally false to generally true.
The interested reader can now choose from a whole spectrum of books ranging from popular introductions to extensive monographs.
The stimuli consisted of 123 sentence frames ranging from 8 to 10 words in length.
It has an eleven-point scale ranging from 5 (completely dissatisfied) to 5 (completely satisfied).
Eleven items were scored on a 6-point scale (ranging from 1 to 6, respectively dissatisfied and very satisfied).
All other government services, ranging from children's programs to community development to energy to transportation to income assistance, would face elimination.
Note that most data points plot along the thermal trough at water vapour pressures ranging from 5 to 0.5 kbar.
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