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She earned about £11,000 from her writing over her career, equivalent to about $1.7 million today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Yet, a last-second mental lapse Sunday by one of the five professional sports franchises Johnson co-owns prompted him to tweet the equivalent of a distress signal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Although D-serine is also available as a dietary supplement, consuming ordinary serine-rich foods is not equivalent to taking the form used in the experiments.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
When a child is adopted in the UK, their NHS number - or equivalent health service identifier - is changed to protect their anonymity.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
It seemed an excellent deal—just a few hours of work per day for the equivalent of their rent—but Pearl was displeased.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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Whatever you choose, your portfolio should have an age-appropriate mix of stocks and bonds, and cash equivalents.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
France’s recent budget proposal sparked fiscal and political concerns that lifted French 10-year bond yields to their highest since 2002, while their spreads over their German equivalents soared.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Unlike their land-based equivalents, their ability to float means they can be towed to different locations.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Yields on U.K. government bonds fell, tracking their U.S. equivalents, as market focus was on the U.S. inflation data due on Thursday and Friday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
With it came the word descubrimento, meaning first ‘exploration’ and then ‘discovery’; and then this word, in its vernacular equivalents, spread across Europe.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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