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equalize

[ee-kwuh-lahyz] / ˈi kwəˌlaɪz /


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It’s relatively easy to equalize the inheritance for your sons, even if you make gifts during your lifetime.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 12, 2026

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

Barosinusitis is fairly common on flights or when scuba-diving because the atmospheric pressure around us can’t always equalize with the air pressure inside our sinuses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2024

Equalize the airlock with your side of it, get in, equalize with the other side, get out.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

Isotonic cells have an equal concentration of solutes inside and outside the cell; this equalizes the osmotic pressure on either side of the cell membrane which is a semi-permeable membrane.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

“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

Some philosophers, such as Jeremy Bentham, have suggested that it’s our capacity to suffer that equalizes us.

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

What linguists call speech rate — the number of speech sounds per second — equalizes.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

With 11 minutes of regulation remaining, Bosnia and Herzegovina equalized to force extra time, then penalties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

In the second half, Austin FC equalized after Nkosi Tafari misplaced a clearance inside the box, causing confusion in the L.A. defense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025

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

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

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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