equate
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“I equate it to the way a thoroughbred would be when you loaded them into a starting gate,” Olivas said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Which at 22 episodes would equate to $110 million for the season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
In some parts the sun rises around 08:45 GMT in the second half of December, which would equate to 09:45 BST.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
ETFs are traded throughout the day, but transparency does not equate to volatility.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Equally typical is a tendency to equate the risk from some obscure and exotic malady with the chances of suffering from heart and circulatory disease, from which about 12,000 Americans die each week.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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Once imports are taken into account that equates to about 2% of national demand.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
The purchase price equates to just over 6 times Braze’s projected annual sales.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
The OECD, the global economic development body which runs Pisa, says that 20 points equates to roughly a year of learning.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Canada has said that its deal with China equates to less than 3% of the country’s current new-car sales and that it expects the deal to catalyze new Chinese joint-venture investments there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Michael Frayn, in an afterword to his play Copenhagen, notes that several words in German–Unsicherheit, Unschärfe, Unbestimmtheit–have been used by various translators, but that none quite equates to the English uncertainty.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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"The choice for peace includes dialogue of course, but this is not surely equated with national interests for us," she said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026
Wei Shen, an assistant professor at Columbia University and body composition researcher, said lean mass shouldn’t be equated with muscle, because it includes other non-fat tissues in addition to muscle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Testimony reopened scars of unnecessary episiotomies, which prosecution witness Mack equated to a perineal tear.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
The sweeping majority of American nonprofits operate with annual budgets under $1 million; the value they got from Microsoft’s free business software equated to about 30 percent of their IT spend, he told me.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
How did bees ever become equated with sex?
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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Awards voters typically don’t appreciate nuanced acting, too often equating “best” with “most.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
The latest official figures show more than one million young people are Neet - the highest level in more than 12 years and equating to roughly one in eight young people.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Traders who bet on stock-price declines worry that prosecutors are equating their tactics with market manipulation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
Roughly 450 bitcoins are newly minted a day, meaning that institutions are buying approximately 2,700 BTC a day, equating to $220 million-worth using today’s price of $81,543.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
Thinking maybe Albany was unnecessarily equating me with the devil, I sent a signed copy to the commissioner of corrections, which he acknowledged with a curt note; I never' heard from him again.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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