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equalizer

[ee-kwuh-lahy-zer] / ˈi kwəˌlaɪ zər /


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Boosting isn’t a solution, but it is an equalizer, reminding upper management that a different title and fatter salary don’t exempt them from compassion, inside or outside the store.

From Salon May 22, 2026

Aprill defends private equity as an equalizer of sorts in an unequal medical marketplace.

From Slate Mar. 17, 2026

With her equalizer, the 36-year-old Knight became the all-time American goal-scorer in the Olympics.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 19, 2026

United, however, found an equalizer when Colombian center back Jefferson Diaz nodded home a header in the 62nd minute off an assist from Morris Duggan.

From Barron's Nov. 9, 2025

These shoes, it seems to her, are a kind of equalizer.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

Libraries have long been one of society's great equalizers, offering knowledge to anyone who craves it.

From Salon Aug. 24, 2022

Mexican star Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez scored the equalizers in the 26th and 74th minutes.

From Washington Post Feb. 19, 2022

Mexico got a pair during the Nations League final, and the U.S. turned its own isolated moments of power and artistry into equalizers twice.

From Slate Sep. 3, 2021

“The people who are dependent on free public education as equalizers can’t make up the difference when left on their own.”

From Seattle Times Sep. 24, 2020

The Planetara's respiratory controls started; the pressure equalizers began operating, and the gravity plates shifted into lifting combinations.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 by Bates, Harry




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