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equalizer

[ee-kwuh-lahy-zer] / ˈi kwəˌlaɪ zər /


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Boosting isn’t a solution, but it is an equalizer, reminding upper management that a different title and fatter salary don’t exempt them from compassion, inside or outside the store.

From Salon ● May 22, 2026

That idea, practice as the great equalizer, shapes how Plum sees her career now, in a moment that demands more from her than ever before.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026

Aprill defends private equity as an equalizer of sorts in an unequal medical marketplace.

From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2026

Although the internet is meant to be an equalizer, unreliable or inconsistent connectivity can instead hold people back.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

These shoes, it seems to her, are a kind of equalizer.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

A subway car is supposed to be one of society’s great equalizers.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

Libraries have long been one of society’s great equalizers, offering knowledge to anyone who craves it.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2022

It will be especially eye-opening for anyone who believes that wealth, education and access to quality medical services are the great equalizers, the attainable means by which Black Americans can achieve health-care parity.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 10, 2022

Mexico got a pair during the Nations League final, and the U.S. turned its own isolated moments of power and artistry into equalizers twice.

From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2021

The Planetara's respiratory controls started; the pressure equalizers began operating, and the gravity plates shifted into lifting combinations.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 by Harry Bates


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