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More than $2.4 trillion of goods moved through the Taiwan Strait in 2024, equivalent to roughly 21% of global maritime trade, according to CSIS.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
As part of the sale, International Finance Corp. agreed to buy a stake of up to 67.2 million pounds, equivalent to $89.7 million, from shareholders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
There is no equivalent UK measure, but Expana says the UK market is closely linked to mainland Europe, where some British businesses source their whey protein.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Marset, his attorneys say, “believed that the request for a ‘donation’ was the equivalent of an extortion attempt.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
For instance, multiplying by the number i was equivalent to spinning the sphere 90 degrees clockwise.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Ineos says that its plants in Humberside are "among the most efficient in the world", producing materials with half the carbon footprint of US rivals, and only one eighth the footprint of Chinese equivalents.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Store-brand equivalents for cold medications, like Nyquil, often placed next to the original, got good enough and similar enough that shoppers often didn’t even make a distinction between the two.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
At the end of 2025, the company disclosed it had $105 million in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, up from $36.9 million a year earlier.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
After more than three months of burning that year, Indonesia's fires had emitted 1.75 billion tons of greenhouse gas equivalents -- more than Japan emits in an entire year.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
Contests between the abacists and the so-called algorists who used Indian numerals were the medieval equivalents of the Kasparov versus Deep Blue chess match.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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