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equivalence

[ih-kwiv-uh-luhns, ee-kwuh-vey-luhns] / ɪˈkwɪv ə ləns, ˌi kwəˈveɪ ləns /


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From MarketWatch • Feb. 26, 2026

"More problematically, matching adversaries' tone risks creating equivalence in audiences' minds between democratic institutions and disinformation actors."

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

Self-exoneration through false moral equivalence by public figures is as old as time itself.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

Not that I mean to imply any sort of qualitative or moral equivalence between “Saw” and this.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2024

The problem with the relativists is that they explain bad science and good science, phrenology and nuclear physics, in exactly the same way—advocates of ‘the strong programme’ explicitly insist on this equivalence.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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