equivalent

Example Sentences

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Foden was tireless, but this was England's equivalent of an ill-fitting square peg in a round hole.

From BBC

They are polite background noise — the culinary equivalent of a cubicle in a Schaumburg office park.

From Salon

Net profit last year rose to 68 billion yuan, equivalent to $9.8 billion at current rates, up 8.7% from a year earlier, the company said Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal

One person wrote on Weibo, China's equivalent of X: "Who would resort to this if cemetery plots were affordable?"

From BBC

Germany could still invoke its equivalent of antitrust curbs to block the deal but will likely content itself with “grumbles in the body politic,” Bruegel’s Veron predicts.

From Barron's