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equalize

[ee-kwuh-lahyz] / ˈi kwəˌlaɪz /


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To equalize their inheritance later, you can adjust the distribution in your will or trust, reducing your grandnieces’ shares by the amount you have gifted each.

From MarketWatch Dec. 26, 2025

Markkanen's free throw with 19 seconds remaining in regulation set up the first overtime at 127-127 and Chicago's Coby White sank a layup with 0.2 of seconds remaining to equalize at 136-136.

From Barron's Nov. 17, 2025

At six months of age, the number of nanotubes in normal mice and those with Alzheimer's disease began to equalize.

From Science Daily Oct. 16, 2025

Barosinusitis is fairly common on flights or when scuba-diving because the atmospheric pressure around us can’t always equalize with the air pressure inside our sinuses.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2024

Sensing the drop in pressure, it constantly flooded itself with air from my nitrogen tank to equalize.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

“This rule, at least to a certain degree, equalizes the workforce that way,’’ says Amanda Sonneborn, an employment lawyer at King & Spalding.

From Seattle Times Nov. 5, 2021

That’s smart, since consumers love both the content, digital content delivery and, eventually — as the water equalizes, as it always does — Hollywood-movie folks will figure out the necessary economic equilibrium.

From New York Times Jul. 10, 2021

The first equalizes the bad luck we’re born with; the second, the bad luck that finds us as adults.

From The New Yorker Jan. 6, 2020

Fresh flour is considered “unstable,” Hutchison explained, and oxidation equalizes it and makes it more stable and consistent.

From Washington Times Jul. 10, 2016

“I like the way it equalizes everyone, you know? Most competitions are only for one thing, but in America's Got Talent, you can do anything. Be anything.”

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

Paraguay opened the scoring in the 42nd minute through Julio Enciso, before Germany equalized in the second half with a header by Kai Havertz.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

With 11 minutes of regulation remaining, Bosnia and Herzegovina equalized to force extra time, then penalties.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 1, 2026

Seattle equalized at 3-3 on a goal by Jordan Morris in the 88th minute set up by Cristian Roldan from Albert Rusnak's corner kick.

From Barron's Nov. 9, 2025

Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, director of the Clinical Epidemiology Center at the VA St. Louis Health Care System, and his colleagues expected to find that the two respiratory diseases had finally equalized.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2024

As soon as it equalized, I threw off my helmet.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

“A life-insurance policy can be specifically purchased to provide a cash payout to the non-business child, effectively equalizing their inheritance without burdening the business or the child taking it over,” it says.

From MarketWatch Mar. 6, 2026

Whether or not Altman is a true believer in A.I.’s equalizing powers, he’s talking his book.

From Slate Feb. 10, 2026

“Science is the greatest equalizing force in the world,” Yaghi said Wednesday during an interview with Nobelprize.org.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 8, 2025

It is also, in some ways, an equalizing force.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2025

“My thought was that if you know how to keep tissue alive there must be some way of equalizing the reserve supply to the area of the throat and face.”

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot




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