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It was the tech world’s equivalent of a snow day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
The other big reader objection: My EV road trip cost as much as the gas equivalent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
Scottish Water figures, external show that Glasgow's River Clyde was one of the most impacted waterways in Scotland last year, receiving almost 6,150 spills - or the equivalent of 17 a day.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
The missive went to the top Democrats and Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee and its Senate equivalent.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
It made him feel like the equivalent of one of those red-marked overdue bills he and his mom used to get.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
As of June 30, Agility had $14.7 million in cash and cash equivalents, as well as $7.1 million in restricted cash.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
The order exempts stops at ports of entry, checkpoints and other functional equivalents of the border.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
So you’d be more or less treading water between your returns and inflation with your money stashed in cash equivalents.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 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
Compare the professionalese on the left with the concrete equivalents on the right: Participants were tested under conditions of good to excellent acoustic isolation.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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