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Examples of counterpart

counterpart
However, some evidence suggests that household heads with college or postgraduate degrees were paying a higher price on onions, peppers and potatoes than their counterparts.
Farmers in this area generally carry out an intensive, highinput, high-tech management system on more productive farms compared to their northern counterparts.
The structural repeat is transposed, varied and redistributed, and an agile coda has the soloist in cahoots with its orchestral counterparts.
The older generation of colonial visitors were thus free of the fears of their youthful counterparts at the prospect of vulgarity and isolation.
A possible solution to arrive at research results more quickly might be found in the cross-national analysis of younger generations compared to their older counterparts.
Compared to their serial counterparts, parallel structures provide several advantages, such as high stiffness, low inertia, high positioning accuracy, and good dynamic performances.
A number of them received top international awards for magic, were hailed as national heroes and seen on a par with their western counterparts.
However, unilateral lesions may have an increased rate of postnatal pathology compared to their bilateral counterparts.
In particular the auxiliary tiles needed in all such formats can be characterized as the bidimensional counterparts of symmetries, duplicators and dischargers.
They therefore will be acceptable prosodic words in compounds, because their only related counterparts, the prefixed nouns, also have short vowels.
However, in order to do so, trust models initially require agents to gather some knowledge about their counterparts' characteristics.
However, it appears that in contrast to their invertebrate counterparts, pannexins have lost the ability to form gap junction channels.
Composers had clearly not been ambitious enough and had failed to match their counterparts in the other arts.
Compared with their monopoly-sector counterparts, moreover, open-sector professionals and managers experience relative decline in income levels from 1988 to 1995.
Our results show that the persistent income poverty measure does constitute a significant improvement over its cross-sectional counterparts.
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Collocations withcounterpart

counterpart

These are words often used in combination with counterpart.

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civilian counterpart
His civiliancounterpart has his week-ends free, and he can book ten weeks ahead if he wants to go to a football match.
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