tantamount
Example Sentences
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Eritrea, however, sees Ahmed’s maritime aspirations as tantamount to a threat of military aggression.
He also called Rohl "a very young man", which was tantamount to telling him to "sit down, you know nothing of this fixture".
From BBC
“What happened to you was not miraculous,” he tells her, and the contention is to her tantamount to a slap in the face.
"For his age, this is tantamount to a life sentence -- an extremely severe punishment," she said.
From Barron's
In his initial screen representations, Superman was an earnest representation of Americana—despite being from the fictional planet Krypton—and tantamount goodness.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
