- present tense form of equate (3rd person singular).
equates
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An $80,000 income from $1.8 million equates to a 4.44% withdrawal rate in the first year, while an initial 4% withdrawal, adjusted for inflation in subsequent years, would give you $72,000 in the first year.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026
Once imports are taken into account that equates to about 2% of national demand.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
The purchase price equates to just over 6 times Braze’s projected annual sales.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 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
All of which brings us to the key point: the ancients, particularly in the classical period, had no notion that equates exactly with our modern conception of “science.”
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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