Example Sentences

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The latter equaled about 8% of revenue in the most recent quarter.

From Barron's • May 28, 2026

Despite the worries and headlines about private credit, new money continued to flow into the private funds including the two Blue Owl private BDCs during the first quarter—and nearly equaled outflows in some cases.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

The Galaxy Z TriFold may represent the ceiling of a yearslong experiment on phone sizes, where bigger equaled better.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Palantir’s stock-based compensation equaled 33% of its revenue the year before its IPO in 2020, Google’s was 15% and Facebook’s was 6%, the analysis shows.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025

Thirty-eight beats times four equaled 152 beats per minute.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas