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equivalent

[ih-kwiv-uh-luhnt, ee-kwuh-vey-luhnt] / ɪˈkwɪv ə lənt, ˌi kwəˈveɪ lənt /




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Net profit fell 1.8% to 9.09 billion yuan, equivalent to $1.35 billion, in the first six months of the year, the Hangzhou-based company said Monday.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

Rosebank is estimated to contain the equivalent of up to 300 million barrels of oil and at its peak will produce approximately 69,000 barrels a day.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

Last season only five of the 14 players in the equivalent sample were 18.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

As housing costs, especially “owner’s equivalent rent,” make up the largest component of the official inflation calculations, the two often march hand in hand.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

A present-day equivalent might be reproduced if the sound-effects man on Gangbusters and Walter Winchell should go on the air simultaneously, before a battery of powerful amplifiers.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

The long, slender fibers from the plant could be used to make products that are both stronger and softer than wood-based equivalents.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Cash and equivalents plus short-term investments are at about $4.8 billion, while debt is at around $6.5 billion, he said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 7, 2026

The new European discovery is that once you step out of America’s first-tier cities, you find places that also are an order of magnitude “more so” than Europe’s equivalents.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

SpaceX noted alongside the bond announcement that as of June 19, it held approximately $100.8 billion in cash and cash equivalents.

From Barron's Jun. 22, 2026

I was learning from books what my father had learned by doing, but we worked together to master challenges of converting metric measurements to the equivalents in inches, feet, and yards.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson




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