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On videos broadcast from there, employees sell Veet hair removal cream, Lysol’s international equivalent Dettol and other Reckitt goods on China’s popular social-media platforms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
For Solaia, the most expensive of the three, that is equivalent to 20% of the total production for that year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
GDP in 1913 — which was $39.5 billion, according to Measuring Worth — Rockefeller’s wealth comprised 2.3% of total national output, or the equivalent of roughly $742 billion in today’s economy.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Samsung averted a strike in South Korea earlier this year by agreeing to a deal to distribute bonuses equivalent to 10.5 percent of operating profit to its semiconductor employees.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Exceptions.—X final, being equivalent to ks, is never doubled; and when the derivative does not retain the accent of the root, the final consonant is not always doubled: as, prefer' + ence = pref'erence.
From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton
Adjusted for inflation, the rough equivalents today would be more than $700,000 in income and net worth of $6.6 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
France’s recent budget proposal sparked fiscal and political concerns that lifted French 10-year bond yields to their highest since 2002, while their spreads over their German equivalents soared.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Unlike their land-based equivalents, their ability to float means they can be towed to different locations.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 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
During those war years I went to three different schools—a kindergarten and the equivalents of your junior and senior high school.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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