equalize
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Assigning the Roth account to a child in a high tax bracket and the traditional account to one in a lower bracket can help equalize after-tax values.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
It’s relatively easy to equalize the inheritance for your sons, even if you make gifts during your lifetime.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 12, 2026
“In order to equalize its share versus the USD, the gold price would need to rise to USD 5,790/oz assuming no change in the quantity of gold holdings,” Hsueh wrote.
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
Sensing the drop in pressure, it constantly flooded itself with air from my nitrogen tank to equalize.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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“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
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
I feel like it equalizes things, that it will make me a fuller, better person.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2013
What linguists call speech rate — the number of speech sounds per second — equalizes.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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It’s a cost gap barely equalized by the current 50% aluminum tariff.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Paraguay opened the scoring in the 42nd minute through Julio Enciso, before Germany equalized in the second half with a header by Kai Havertz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Seattle equalized at 3-3 on a goal by Jordan Morris in the 88th minute set up by Cristian Roldan from Albert Rusnak's corner kick.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 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
For us, such struggles — for sunglasses, long trousers, study privileges, equalized food — were corollaries to the struggle we waged outside prison.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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“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
“Science is the greatest equalizing force in the world,” Yaghi said Wednesday during an interview with Nobelprize.org.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
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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