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tantamount
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    It would almost be tantamount to pounding his own son to death.†  (source)
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    Then you'll know that attempting to breach them is tantamount to suicide.†  (source)
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    But that would be tantamount to asking the Vice Chancellor to execute her parents.†  (source)
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    That would be tantamount to admitting a mistake, and the military doesn't do that either.†  (source)
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    He told her point-blank that in his view it was tantamount to whoring and he implored her to quit.†  (source)
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    Refusing to break Welsh's bones was tantamount to killing his daughter.†  (source)
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    At least, I asked a question that was tantamount to a suggestion.†  (source)
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    The gesture was tantamount to an admission, but I didn't care.†  (source)
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    His uncle, however, believed that the failure of Elbers was due not to privileges but to the unrealistic commitments he had contracted for, which had almost been tantamount to his assuming responsibility for the geography of the nation: he had taken charge of maintaining the navigability of the river, the port installations, the access routes on land, the means of transportation.†  (source)
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    She'd hidden audio from the world, which was tantamount to lying to the world, to the millions who assumed she was being straightforward always, transparent always.†  (source)
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    It would be tantamount to declaring that the lives of four Downworlders are worth less than the safety of two Shadowhunters.†  (source)
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    He understood that such an admission, for her, was tantamount to a shouted declaration of devotion from other women.†  (source)
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    But they follow a regimen, darling, because if they don't, they get poor service reports, which is tantamount to a fate worse than dismissal — which rarely happens — because it means no advancement, limbo.†  (source)
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