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equivalent

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




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Sound Wave said Monday it raised 2.65 billion yen, equivalent to $16.7 million, to fund an ongoing clinical trial due to be completed by the end of the year.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

A million tons is the equivalent emissions of about 220,000 cars on U.S. roads for a year.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

If you have liquidity needs you can’t easily meet, you can transfer assets to your trust and take out the equivalent value in cash, says Robert Westley, regional wealth advisor at Northern Trust.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

It's performed by pop star Pete Parkonnen and classical violinist Linda Lampenius – a hook-up that's the Finnish equivalent of Harry Styles doing a duet with Nicola Benedetti.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

But he went further: in place of the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems, he proposed his own geoheliocentric system, which was geometrically equivalent to Copernicanism but had a moving sun and a stationary Earth.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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