equates

Example Sentences

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Though each home’s energy generation is capped at a relatively paltry 800 watts, their sum total across the country equates to a large power plant, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Jantos says this equates to more than two hours per day "spent not in the company of another human, but most likely going deep in some sort of experience engaged in your phone".

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

The second scenario is a regular tech-investment recession, involving a two-standard-deviation fall in U.S. tech capex, which at current annual spending rates equates to an $88 billion reduction in spending — or a 6% drop.

From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026

And it equates small portions to elegance, chicness and peak femininity.

From Salon • May 17, 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