Relative abundances with respect to Fe vs. the total metallicity in the LMC ISM (orange triangles), after correcting for dust depletion. Larger symbols highlight the golden sample. The blue circles show the stellar measurements of field red giant stars older than 1 Gyr in the LMC bar (dark blue) and disk (light blue) from Van der Swaelmen et al. (2013) and Pompéia et al. (2008). The magenta points are the stellar measurements from APOGEE in the LMC, with the selection of Hasselquist et al. (2021). The APOGEE stellar measurements for S and Cr are less reliable. The grey dashed line shows the average [α/Fe] for stars in the Milky Way from McWilliam (1997). Potential variations in [P/Fe] and [Zn/Fe] due to nucleosynthesis are observable only in the golden sample.