equates
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And it equates small portions to elegance, chicness and peak femininity.
From Salon • May 17, 2026
This equates to roughly two-fifths of the entirety of Kiribati's GDP, according to the International Monetary Fund.
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026
“Based on what the options were pricing in heading into the week, that equates to nearly a three standard-deviation move, which should only happen about one out of every hundred weeks.”
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
The monthly minimum wage currently equates to around 28 US cents, while annual price hikes surpass 600 percent.
From Barron's • Mar. 23, 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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