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Factory shipments rose a solid 3.6% from the month before to a seasonally adjusted 71.19 billion Canadian dollars, the equivalent of about US$51.7 billion, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
The monitoring programme, the largest of its kind in the world, has tracked butterflies across more than 7,600 sites, with volunteers walking the equivalent of 40 times around the globe.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
The EPA estimated the 2022 emissions from flooded lands as equivalent to 44.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide — comparable to U.S. steel and iron plants.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
"This new ant species is the insect equivalent of cleaner fish in the ocean," Moffett said.
From Science Daily • Apr. 14, 2026
Sometimes there are no clues at all about what she was doing—the equivalent of radio silence.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
Vocabulary lists containing equivalent
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Unit 3: Compelling Evidence
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