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But the Dodgers haven’t had a happy moment since winning that 18-inning Game 3 epic that a lot of romantics seemed to believe was tantamount to clinching.

"All these things the insurers say sound reasonable, but are tantamount to saying disabled people are an unusual case, and that their lives are inherently riskier."

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Some American lawmakers say the killings are tantamount to extrajudicial executions.

"To some people, this is tantamount to, 'we own this bit of the moon, we're going to operate here and and you can't come in'," he explains.

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The UN had previously warned that the forcible transfer of an occupied territory's civilian population is "tantamount to ethnic cleansing".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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