equivalence

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You would have to go back to Handel’s 42 operas, Mozart’s 22 or Verdi’s oeuvre for operatic equivalence.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

This functional equivalence is illustrated in the accompanying chart.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 26, 2026

"More problematically, matching adversaries' tone risks creating equivalence in audiences' minds between democratic institutions and disinformation actors."

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

This much is grounds for legitimate moral equivalence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

This was the beginning of the discipline of projective geometry, where mathematicians look at the shadows and projections of geometric figures to uncover hidden truths even more powerful than the equivalence of parabolas and ellipses.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife