- present tense form of equate (3rd person singular).
equates
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An $80,000 income from $1.8 million equates to a 4.44% withdrawal rate in the first year, while an initial 4% withdrawal, adjusted for inflation in subsequent years, would give you $72,000 in the first year.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026
Once imports are taken into account that equates to about 2% of national demand.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
The cuts - the steepest since 2022 - will mainly affect its human resources, legal, product and technology teams and equates to around 6% of its total workforce.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
That means Musk’s fortune equates to roughly 3.1% of the entire national economy — a higher percentage than any American before him.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
All of which brings us to the key point: the ancients, particularly in the classical period, had no notion that equates exactly with our modern conception of “science.”
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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