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equivalent

[ih-kwiv-uh-luhnt, ee-kwuh-vey-luhnt] / ɪˈkwɪv ə lənt, ˌi kwəˈveɪ lənt /




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This display is the touch screen equivalent of the Big Type books that you give your grandparents.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

Reform's Laura Anne Jones said the UK government message on "action to protect communities from the growing threat posed by wildfires" arrived on mobiles in English after an equivalent in the Welsh language.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

This constitutes a tax-free invisible “income” stream, which the government sometimes likes to call “owner’s equivalent rent.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

Omoto said the company can invest more than ¥100 billion, equivalent to $627 million, in a single deal if it sees good opportunities for Helena or other businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

But he went further: in place of the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems, he proposed his own geoheliocentric system, which was geometrically equivalent to Copernicanism but had a moving sun and a stationary Earth.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The deal implies an equity value of $2.25 billion when Airtable’s cash and cash equivalents balance is included, the companies said Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

The new European discovery is that once you step out of America’s first-tier cities, you find places that also are an order of magnitude “more so” than Europe’s equivalents.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

The company said it had $100.8 billion in cash and cash equivalents as of June 19, or more than six times its cash as of March 31, according to filings.

From MarketWatch Jun. 22, 2026

SpaceX noted alongside the bond announcement that as of June 19, it held approximately $100.8 billion in cash and cash equivalents.

From Barron's Jun. 22, 2026

People were climbing Cerro Baul, building their maquettes, and praying that the heavens would give them the real-life equivalents.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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