equivalent
Example Sentences
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At first, this rodent equivalent of downsizing dimmed the mouse’s mood.
From Los Angeles Times
There are no queer players who are out in the National Hockey League, the real-world equivalent of the show’s Major League Hockey.
From Salon
Bush apparently decided at some unspecified point that the intelligence agencies needed a “watcher” and thus established The Orphanage: analysts downstairs, “mission control” upstairs, the equivalent of an internal-affairs bureau for the clandestine services.
A bigger battle looms on reforms to the German equivalent of Social Security.
Mr Stowe, originally from Solihull, escaped barefoot with his wife, son, and two cats at about 04:10 GMT after he woke and heard rushing water "equivalent to the Niagara Falls".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
