equivalent

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission on Friday said that Australia’s Federal Court had raised the amount that the country’s fourth-largest bank must pay to 250 million Australian dollars, equivalent to US$165.3 million.

From The Wall Street Journal

Nabokov set an impossible mark for himself and hit it, the literary equivalent of Babe Ruth’s called shot, and his book deserves to be mythologized in similar fashion.

From Salon

As of Sept. 30, the company had $716 million in cash, cash equivalents and other short-term investments, according to its third-quarter earnings report.

From Barron's

You have children who will also benefit from an inheritance, so this is the equivalent of a double-edged silver sword with — you’ll be glad to know — relatively blunt edges.

From MarketWatch

According to PTTEP, SK408 block has proven reserves of 29 million of barrels of oil equivalent and proved and probable reserves of 52 million barrels of oil equivalent.

From The Wall Street Journal