equated
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Giles Bristow, chief executive of Surfers Against Sewage, said last year's figures equated to a discharge every five minutes, which he called a "shocking statistic".
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 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
Unfortunately, as JPMorgan energy guru Michael Cembalest recently put it, we’re “in divinity school” where rationality is roughly equated with atheism when the subject is climate and energy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
How did bees ever become equated with sex?
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
