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Mr. Elwes calculates that this would be roughly equivalent to that huge 68-digit number above.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
The $100,000 bribe prosecutors say he agreed to is the equivalent of $384 for someone making $100,000 a year.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
Of the 36 firms tracked by FactSet, 92% have the equivalent of a Buy rating on Autodesk shares.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
Young reporters who stood in line with me to get their press passes renewed in a nearby Senate office were the reportorial equivalent of their congressional staff counterparts.
From Salon • May 29, 2026
In French, physicien had never been a term used for doctors, so the word was conveniently available to mean a natural scientist, and then to evolve to become the French equivalent for ‘physicist’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Unit 3: Compelling Evidence
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