equivalency

Example Sentences

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“Members of this council should not fall into the false equivalency of calling on both sides to stop fighting, or calling on other nations to stop supporting Ukraine in the name of peace,” he said.

From New York Times

Yet federal officials have been reluctant to recognize any equivalency, citing the wide variation in covid patients' immune response to infection.

From Salon

The network infected journalism with the disease of false equivalency and obfuscation, as organizations contorted themselves to placate accusations of liberal bias.

From Salon

“But to compare the actions of people protesting, mostly peacefully, for civil rights to those of a violent mob seeking to overthrow the lawfully elected government is a false equivalency and ignores the very real danger that the Jan. 6 riots posed to the foundation of our democracy,” she said.

From Washington Post

After passing his high school equivalency exam, Stilley finished college in three years, he said, before going on to law school at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and setting up his practice in Fort Smith.

From Washington Post