equivalent
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That’s equivalent to around 3.5 million a year for the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
It is feasible that the winning team will have had to travel a distance the equivalent to the diameter of the Earth.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
Meanwhile, earlier this spring, the U.S. government declassified another batch of UFO files and the response was roughly equivalent to a collective shrug.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
The new map of neural connections, known as a connectome, extends a previously published fruit fly brain connectome by adding the fly's spinal cord equivalent, called the nerve cord.
From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026
It was probably the equivalent of two or three stories high, and maybe the width of a city block.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Vocabulary lists containing equivalent
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Unit 3: Compelling Evidence
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