tantamount
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Keeping her informed about your actions is tantamount to saying, “It all goes to you.”
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
But selling the store is tantamount to discarding his story.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
Fadiah wrote on X that being denied entry was "tantamount to a deliberate attack on my scholarly work".
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
“What happened to you was not miraculous,” he tells her, and the contention is to her tantamount to a slap in the face.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
Thanks to the number-shape duality, to the Greeks counting was tantamount to measuring a line.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing tantamount
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