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equivalent

[ih-kwiv-uh-luhnt, ee-kwuh-vey-luhnt] / ɪˈkwɪv ə lənt, ˌi kwəˈveɪ lənt /




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A commonly eaten meat in Australia, kangaroo is the world’s leanest protein and the equivalent of venison in America.

From Salon Aug. 30, 2026

All have roughly equivalent sticker prices, with total costs hovering near $100,000 a year, but Syracuse has dropped in a prominent national ranking seven years in a row.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

On Douyin, China's equivalent of TikTok, videos of users cracking open fruit with their bare hands have been watched billions of times.

From Barron's Aug. 30, 2026

After a project is complete, actors must sign off and be paid the equivalent of an in-person performance if their replica is used.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2026

Most interesting of all, if you take a number x and replace it with its reciprocal 1/x, that is equivalent to flipping the sphere upside down and reflecting it in a mirror.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

That is one of the messages to come out of the recent proliferation of AI models from Chinese companies that offer strong performance coupled with cheaper access than equivalents from Anthropic, OpenAI and others.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

The long, slender fibers from the plant could be used to make products that are both stronger and softer than wood-based equivalents.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

As of June 30, AST SpaceMobile said it had about $2.7 billion in cash and cash equivalents.

From MarketWatch Jul. 16, 2026

Cash and equivalents plus short-term investments are at about $4.8 billion, while debt is at around $6.5 billion, he said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 7, 2026

All in the Family and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in other words, were the television equivalents of the Aeron chair.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell




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