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equivalency

[ih-kwiv-uh-luhn-see] / ɪˈkwɪv ə lən si /


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Many big brands see a false equivalency between DEI issues and target marketing issues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

"When I think about the show, if there's one word to describe it, I suppose it would be equitability or equivalency, equivalency between artworks," the Costume Institute's curator Andrew Bolton told AFP.

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

I wonder how you approach covering the candidates in a way that gives them a similar amount of screen time but doesn’t distort their records or create a false equivalency?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2024

That doesn't mean we should fall into a moral equivalency.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2024

I could take the G.E.D.— a high school equivalency exam—in Montgomery and get my diploma that way.

From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose

But if “Armageddon Time” seems to hew to a familiar playbook, it also avoids trafficking in the complacency, reassurance and false equivalencies that most Hollywood explorations of race and class are eager to peddle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2022

Mann and others have criticized such arguments for their false equivalencies: the environmental and health costs of rare earth minerals for certain renewable energy sources are small compared with those of fossil fuels.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 26, 2022

The group added: "The United States and Israel are imperfect and, like all democracies, at times deserving of critique, but false equivalencies give cover to terrorist groups."

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2021

Oliver ended the segment by condemning the false equivalencies and euphemisms that prevent us from talking honestly about the situation:

From Slate ● May 17, 2021

This mediation was itself a form of work: questions asked, questions answered, commitments made, equivalencies determined.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin




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