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The study followed nearly 300,000 babies born between September 2024 and March 2025 in England - equivalent to about 90% of all births during that time.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
Net profit rose 48.5% to 20.74 billion yuan, equivalent to $3.04 billion, the company said late Wednesday.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Of the 54 analysts polled by FactSet, 51 rate Broadcom the equivalent of a Buy.
From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026
Adjust those numbers for inflation, and they are the equivalent of £500,000 and £1.1m today.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
In 1651 Pascal reacted with horror to the suggestion that he had tried to pass Torricelli’s experiment off as his own: everyone understood, he insisted, that this would be the scholarly equivalent of theft.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Unit 3: Compelling Evidence
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