equivalence

Example Sentences

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Dr Bączyk-Bell said the process had been a "facetious charade" and it was a "false equivalence" to talk about hurt caused to those who had been theologically opposed to the idea of marriage equality.

From BBC

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

From Barron's

Self-exoneration through false moral equivalence by public figures is as old as time itself.

From The Wall Street Journal

Not that I mean to imply any sort of qualitative or moral equivalence between “Saw” and this.

From Los Angeles Times

No equivalence is drawn the parent side, even though it's also true that a parent who refuses to make peace with an adult child runs the emotional risk of losing that relationship permanently.

From Salon