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Duke University economist Matthias Kehrig calculated that for lower-income commuters, the $1 rise in gas prices in the past month is equivalent to 2% of income.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
By 10:24 p.m., the equivalent of 20,000 Olympic swimming pools of water flows out.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
Foden was tireless, but this was England's equivalent of an ill-fitting square peg in a round hole.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
In Paris, for example, the average price per gallon hit the equivalent of $10.27 this week.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026
The best translation into English is perhaps a phrase of John Wilkins’s of 1675 which is surely meant to be the English equivalent: ‘this visible frame which we call the World’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
