equate
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“We don’t want to be in a position where we sell something that doesn’t equate to the experience that someone is expecting to have.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
They give $15,000 a year, and their other itemized deductions equate to about $12,000.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
"In small teams under extreme conditions, more contact doesn't automatically equate to social support, but can actually increase tensions," says Jan Schmutz.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
It was because of money from tech billionaire investor Peter Thiel and other Silicon Valley types who seem to equate being rich with being learned.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
“Since I know that you don’t equate ‘smarter’ with ‘better,’ I’m going to say that that’s not true.”
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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This equates to less empty space and more targeted supplies.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
To qualify, they merely need to earn enough work credits over their lifetime — typically 40 credits, which equates to around 10 years of work.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
The outflows alone took a big bite, totaling $65.7 billion since the second quarter of 2022, which equates to 20% of the funds’ average assets since then.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Micron had an 85% gross margin in the third quarter, and expects it to rise to 86% in the current quarter—that equates to a 600% markup on Micron’s cost of goods.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
All of which brings us to the key point: the ancients, particularly in the classical period, had no notion that equates exactly with our modern conception of “science.”
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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The sweeping majority of American nonprofits operate with annual budgets under $1 million; the value they got from Microsoft’s free business software equated to about 30 percent of their IT spend, he told me.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Given nearly every household in America had a cable subscription during ESPN’s heyday, that equated to many billions of dollars in extremely high-margin revenue to Disney, delivered reliably and predictably every single year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Rivers equated the no-encampment zones to federal immigration operations in the city, arguing that they enable law enforcement to snatch people off the street without giving them a place to go.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
Another got into specifics, saying their credit-card rewards equated to $400 monthly “in free money” based on their Meta ad spend.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026
How did bees ever become equated with sex?
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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Adults across the UK spend more than £111 per month on dates and dating apps, equating to more than £1,300 per year, according to research from Barclays in 2025,
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
The latest official figures show more than one million young people are Neet - the highest level in more than 12 years and equating to roughly one in eight young people.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
This designation has more serious consequences, as it entails equating the PCC and CV with groups such as Al-Qaeda or the Islamic State.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Roughly 450 bitcoins are newly minted a day, meaning that institutions are buying approximately 2,700 BTC a day, equating to $220 million-worth using today’s price of $81,543.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
Thinking maybe Albany was unnecessarily equating me with the devil, I sent a signed copy to the commissioner of corrections, which he acknowledged with a curt note; I never' heard from him again.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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