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  • To have been indifferent to the companionship of the single gentleman would have been tantamount to being gifted with nerves of steel.†  (source)
  • On the other hand, forcing them to stay outside was tantamount to a death sentence given the subzero temperatures.†  (source)
  • That is tantamount to letting a part of Himself die.†  (source)
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  • And he had never once told Harry ...never bothered to say...And why it was so important, Harry could not explain even to himself, yet he felt it had been tantamount to a lie not to tell him that they had this place and these experiences in common.†  (source)
  • He could write the account Charlie wanted, but to do so would be tantamount to admitting to himself that he would never write another novel.†  (source)
  • That's tantamount to an invitation when he's dead.'†  (source)
  • and having me prone like that was tantamount to an invitation.†  (source)
  • To refuse him would be tantamount to declaring that we did not trust him.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • This was tantamount to blowing up the Pyramids of Giza.†  (source)
  • That would be tantamount to admitting a mistake, and the military doesn't do that either.†  (source)
  • He and Calvert Vaux had built and refined Central Park from 1858 through 1876, but forever afterward Olmsted found himself defending the park against attempts to tinker with its grounds in ways he considered tantamount to vandalism.†  (source)
  • 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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