- present tense form of equate (3rd person singular).
equates
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There were 34.5 million Americans living in poverty last year, which equates to just over 10% of the U.S. population.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
The cuts - the steepest since 2022 - will mainly affect its human resources, legal, product and technology teams and equates to around 6% of its total workforce.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Canada has said that its deal with China equates to less than 3% of the country’s current new-car sales and that it expects the deal to catalyze new Chinese joint-venture investments there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Constellation’s stock is rising sharply following a deal that equates to as much power as would be supplied by a new nuclear reactor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Michael Frayn, in an afterword to his play Copenhagen, notes that several words in German–Unsicherheit, Unschärfe, Unbestimmtheit–have been used by various translators, but that none quite equates to the English uncertainty.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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