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Around 10-15% of people with stage two or three bowel cancer have this genetic make-up, equivalent to roughly 2,000-3,000 cases each year in the UK.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
GDP at the time, or the equivalent of $355 billion today.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Samsung averted a strike in South Korea earlier this year by agreeing to a deal to distribute bonuses equivalent to 10.5 percent of operating profit to its semiconductor employees.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Operating profit for the three months ended September likely surged nearly ninefold from a year earlier to 107.400 trillion won, equivalent to $80.18 billion, the company said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
It was probably the equivalent of two or three stories high, and maybe the width of a city block.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Chief Executive Kris Licht figured they were talking about China’s equivalents of Amazon.com and Walmart+.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
France’s recent budget proposal sparked fiscal and political concerns that lifted French 10-year bond yields to their highest since 2002, while their spreads over their German equivalents soared.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
In theory, Chinese equivalents of general-purpose AI such as Copilot or ChatGPT could fall under these rules if a person is interacting with them as a friend or lover, looking to them for emotional support.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
At the end of 2025, the company disclosed it had $105 million in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, up from $36.9 million a year earlier.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
During those war years I went to three different schools—a kindergarten and the equivalents of your junior and senior high school.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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