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But having a companion who sees everything the same way we do does not necessarily equate to love.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

"Dopamine is the molecule that says 'get more of' or 'do more of', but it doesn't necessarily equate to pleasure."

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Now that a mistrial has been declared, that does not equate to an acquittal.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

“We don’t want to be in a position where we sell something that doesn’t equate to the experience that someone is expecting to have.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Thus we confront a characteristic bent of the ancient mind—that tendency to equate what appears to be with what ought to be, without being distracted along the way with what is.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

Canada has said that its deal with China equates to less than 3% of the country’s current new-car sales and that it expects the deal to catalyze new Chinese joint-venture investments there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

That means Musk’s fortune equates to roughly 3.1% of the entire national economy — a higher percentage than any American before him.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Constellation’s stock is rising sharply following a deal that equates to as much power as would be supplied by a new nuclear reactor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The area served by Dyfed-Powys Police includes Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and Powys, and equates to more than 500,000 people - a number that rises significantly with tourists each year.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Michael Frayn, in an afterword to his play Copenhagen, notes that several words in German–Unsicherheit, Unschärfe, Unbestimmtheit–have been used by various translators, but that none quite equates to the English uncertainty.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Testimony reopened scars of unnecessary episiotomies, which prosecution witness Mack equated to a perineal tear.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

The sweeping majority of American nonprofits operate with annual budgets under $1 million; the value they got from Microsoft’s free business software equated to about 30 percent of their IT spend, he told me.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

Given nearly every household in America had a cable subscription during ESPN’s heyday, that equated to many billions of dollars in extremely high-margin revenue to Disney, delivered reliably and predictably every single year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

The college said it currently subsidised more than 50% of each seat and, with further reductions for siblings, it equated to more than £150,000.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

How did bees ever become equated with sex?

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

Awards voters typically don’t appreciate nuanced acting, too often equating “best” with “most.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

By 2025, as Imagination Library celebrated its 30th anniversary, it had distributed more than 300m books - equating to one book mailed every 78 seconds, according to the organisation.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Southern Water has claimed it achieved a record year of leakage reduction, equating to 27 million litres per day, and has found and fixed 2,840 leaks since January.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

Revenue came in at $15.27 billion, equating to organic growth of 5.8%.

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

The pastor started off talking about the importance of Juneteenth, equating the plight of black slaves to the Israelites in ancient Egypt.

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson