coequal

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Rather, the court is an independent, coequal branch of government tasked with determining whether the government’s actions—including the president’s—are constitutional and lawful.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

The confrontation between two supposedly coequal branches of government has reached a critical stage.

From Salon • May 17, 2025

In time, Parliament demanded a coequal share of the power to make statutory law while the power to interpret the law and to adjudicate individual cases was increasingly delegated to law-trained judges.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2025

But, he said, Hill “nevertheless insisted on relegating ‘The Fugees’ billing to coequal or secondary status after her name.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2024

Twice during our day’s march had we crossed deep, ragged depressions in the earth, which were overgrown with a jungle that seemed to be coequal in age with the surrounding trees.

From Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines by Wildman, Rounsevelle