as in equivalence
the state or fact of being exactly the same in number, amount, status, or quality
rules requiring that there be parity in what schools spend on men's and women's sports
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Recent Examples of parity
Cain was instrumental in getting passed a 2000 Colorado law that requires insurers to cover prosthetic arms and legs at parity with Medicare, which requires coverage with a 20% coinsurance payment.
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Michelle Andrews | Kff Health News, ABC News, 6 Jan. 2025
During her career, Hayes has championed greater financial parity, better medical treatment and improved infrastructure for women’s football.
—Katcy Stephan, Variety, 19 Dec. 2024
On the inside, Tesla has added ventilated front seats and an infotainment screen for the rear passengers, and there are now blindspot monitors, all additions that will help Tesla stay close to feature parity with its many rivals in that market.
—Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2025
Only one state has disability coverage parity, in which mental health conditions are covered in the same way as physical health conditions: Vermont.
—Natalie Eilbert, Journal Sentinel, 31 Dec. 2024
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Michelle Andrews | Kff Health News, ABC News, 6 Jan. 2025
During her career, Hayes has championed greater financial parity, better medical treatment and improved infrastructure for women’s football.
—Katcy Stephan, Variety, 19 Dec. 2024
On the inside, Tesla has added ventilated front seats and an infotainment screen for the rear passengers, and there are now blindspot monitors, all additions that will help Tesla stay close to feature parity with its many rivals in that market.
—Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2025
Only one state has disability coverage parity, in which mental health conditions are covered in the same way as physical health conditions: Vermont.
—Natalie Eilbert, Journal Sentinel, 31 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parity
Noun
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Her characters, buffeted by the era’s fluctuating currencies, inherited this crisis of equivalence.—
Laurence Scott,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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The Madness can traffic in false equivalences—a common pitfall of political fiction that values moderation as an end in itself.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
28 Nov. 2024
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Correlating the removal of a platform’s fact-checking with benefits to creators such as lower likelihood of a shadow ban—as Lessin does—could very well be a false equivalency, given the algorithms determining content distribution have never been transparent in the first place.—
Cherie Brooke Luo,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Another owner has a high school equivalency diploma.—
Mercedes Lilienthal,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 2025
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Generations later, the fight for equality would be aided during President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal era by his Irish-American attorney general, Frank Murphy, who established the Civil Rights Unit of the Department of Justice.—
Jay Mwamba,
New York Daily News,
1 Feb. 2025
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This systemic lack of guidance remains a barrier to equality, with women 24% less likely than men to get advice from senior leaders, and for women of color, the gap is even wider, with nearly 60% never having had an informal interaction with a senior leader.—
Erin Grau,
TIME,
29 Jan. 2025
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“Parity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parity. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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