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one that is equal to another in status, achievement, or value
that huge mansion at the end of the street is the equivalent of five ordinary houses
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Recent Examples of equivalents
Google describes the resulting deployment as about 50 server-equivalents worth of compute at a fraction of the usual cost.
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New Atlas,
2 July 2026
Among them are selfie sticks (or equivalents), oversized hats, clothing bearing political statements and large flags.
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Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
30 June 2026
The Bay Area was handed, unquestionably, the worst slate of group-stage games FIFA’s bureaucrats could manifest — five equivalents of a Tuesday night MACtion football game in a November blizzard.
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Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
26 June 2026
His poetry is notoriously difficult to translate because of its highly ornate, extended metaphors, which have few easy equivalents in English.
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Krupa Shandilya,
The Conversation,
25 June 2026
Attrition rates among offshore employees can run significantly higher than their onshore equivalents, not because the talent is weaker, but because the employment experience often is.
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William Jones,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
The Royals lack the pitching equivalents of what Jensen was, potential candidates for next year’s rotation in the upper minors.
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Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
11 June 2026
Radiators and solar arrays can consume 65 to 70 percent of total satellite mass, and space-grade photovoltaics run orders of magnitude more expensive than terrestrial equivalents.
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IEEE Spectrum,
11 June 2026
How different to the NASA equivalents at Cape Canaveral (then Cape Kennedy) and Houston, which were already well established in the national lexicon by the late '60s.
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Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
29 May 2026
New Atlas,
2 July 2026
Among them are selfie sticks (or equivalents), oversized hats, clothing bearing political statements and large flags.
—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
30 June 2026
The Bay Area was handed, unquestionably, the worst slate of group-stage games FIFA’s bureaucrats could manifest — five equivalents of a Tuesday night MACtion football game in a November blizzard.
—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
26 June 2026
His poetry is notoriously difficult to translate because of its highly ornate, extended metaphors, which have few easy equivalents in English.
—
Krupa Shandilya,
The Conversation,
25 June 2026
Attrition rates among offshore employees can run significantly higher than their onshore equivalents, not because the talent is weaker, but because the employment experience often is.
—
William Jones,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
The Royals lack the pitching equivalents of what Jensen was, potential candidates for next year’s rotation in the upper minors.
—
Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
11 June 2026
Radiators and solar arrays can consume 65 to 70 percent of total satellite mass, and space-grade photovoltaics run orders of magnitude more expensive than terrestrial equivalents.
—
IEEE Spectrum,
11 June 2026
How different to the NASA equivalents at Cape Canaveral (then Cape Kennedy) and Houston, which were already well established in the national lexicon by the late '60s.
—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
29 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for equivalents
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Members of the Oklahoma City Thunder’s NBA Summer League team got pummeled by their Memphis Grizzlies’ counterparts on Saturday evening, falling 111-74 in an opening game in Salt Lake City.
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Like their counterparts in the founding generation, most 19th century reformers had their own prejudices and their own ideas about whose liberation mattered most.
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Nvidia's current-generation Rubin systems are in full production and begin shipping this fall to eight cloud partners, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
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Muon and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection are both FireSat partners.
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The incident sparked a one-game suspension for Thomas and another discourse about the treatment Clark has received from her WNBA colleagues in the floor.
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As weather conditions deteriorated near the summit, three climbers turned back, while Morup and two colleagues continued their ascent.
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“Equivalents.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/equivalents. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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