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equalize

[ee-kwuh-lahyz] / ˈi kwəˌlaɪz /


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To equalize inheritance later, you can simply adjust the distribution in your will or trust, reducing your son and daughter’s shares by the amount you have gifted each.

From MarketWatch Dec. 7, 2025

He said his group has advocated for Newsom to declare a statewide emergency, which would help equalize the response statewide and allow for mutual aid agreements between wealthier and poorer areas.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 28, 2025

To equalize its share with the US dollar, gold prices would need to rise to $5,790 per ounce, assuming no change in gold holdings.

From Barron's Oct. 17, 2025

At six months of age, the number of nanotubes in normal mice and those with Alzheimer's disease began to equalize.

From Science Daily Oct. 16, 2025

It means I can bring along other oxygen tanks, and equalize them with the rover's tanks without having to do an EVA.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

“This rule, at least to a certain degree, equalizes the workforce that way,’’ says Amanda Sonneborn, an employment lawyer at King & Spalding.

From Seattle Times Nov. 5, 2021

That’s smart, since consumers love both the content, digital content delivery and, eventually — as the water equalizes, as it always does — Hollywood-movie folks will figure out the necessary economic equilibrium.

From New York Times Jul. 10, 2021

The first equalizes the bad luck we’re born with; the second, the bad luck that finds us as adults.

From The New Yorker Jan. 6, 2020

Fresh flour is considered “unstable,” Hutchison explained, and oxidation equalizes it and makes it more stable and consistent.

From Washington Times Jul. 10, 2016

It's nothing more than a tube that equalizes the rover's air with the pop-tent's.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

It’s a cost gap barely equalized by the current 50% aluminum tariff.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

That streak ended when Belgium’s Charles De Ketelaere equalized with a header just before halftime at Sofi Stadium.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Atlanta's Tyler Allgeier scored on a two-yard run only 2:45 into the game but Buffalo equalized just 4:14 later on Allen's 19-yard touchdown pass to Dawson Knox.

From Barron's Oct. 14, 2025

Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, director of the Clinical Epidemiology Center at the VA St. Louis Health Care System, and his colleagues expected to find that the two respiratory diseases had finally equalized.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2024

As it equalized, Lewis's voice came over the radio.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

In Game 1, Staal scored one of the equalizing goals.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 13, 2026

“A life-insurance policy can be specifically purchased to provide a cash payout to the non-business child, effectively equalizing their inheritance without burdening the business or the child taking it over,” it says.

From MarketWatch Mar. 6, 2026

Whether or not Altman is a true believer in A.I.’s equalizing powers, he’s talking his book.

From Slate Feb. 10, 2026

It is also, in some ways, an equalizing force.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2025

“My thought was that if you know how to keep tissue alive there must be some way of equalizing the reserve supply to the area of the throat and face.”

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot




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