Sample Sentences forequivalent (editor-reviewed)
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At $50 a share, it is equivalent to about a billion dollars.equivalent = is about equal
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It is the equivalent of a Starbucks.equivalent = essentially the equal
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Judge Taylor nodded, and then Atticus did something I never saw him do before or since, in public or in private: he unbuttoned his vest, unbuttoned his collar, loosened his tie, and took off his coat. He never loosened a scrap of his clothing until he undressed at bedtime, and to Jem and me, this was the equivalent of him standing before us stark naked. (source)equivalent = same in effect
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'Knowledge is more than equivalent to force!' (source)equivalent = equal
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Pinkerton purchased the rights to Butterfly for one hundred yen—in modern currency, equivalent to about …. sixty-six cents. (source)equivalent = essentially equal
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Wes mumbled the verbal equivalent of a shrug.† (source)
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Hearthstone scowled and crossed his arms, the deaf equivalent of I can't even talk to you right now.† (source)
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Nadia frequently explored the terrain of social media, though she left little trace of her passing, not posting much herself, and employing opaque usernames and avatars, the online equivalents of her black robes.† (source)
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I closed my eyes and went over the propositional calculus, trying to visualize the truth tables for conjunction, disjunction, equivalence, and material implication.† (source)
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The Jenningses helped Charlie get his general equivalency degree in detention and insisted on financing his college education.† (source)
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We lingered by a few open doorways, catching random bits of lecture and arguments about Kant and Indonesian history and bonding equivalencies and scansion and King Lear.† (source)
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In addition, she would be paid the equivalent of her monthly salary from Hadassah.† (source)
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I was learning from books what my father had learned by doing, but we worked together to master challenges of converting metric measurements to the equivalents in inches, feet, and yards.† (source)
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And thus, O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you have arrived at a fine pyrrhonism,[713] at an equivalence and indifferency of all actions, and would fain teach us that if we are true, forsooth, our crimes may be lively stones out of which we shall construct the temple of the true God.† (source)
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Levy would be entering the Job Corps as a high school dropout but was hoping to leave with a general equivalency diploma (GED) and the skills to help him land a job as a hot-water-boiler repairman.† (source)
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This is the clothing equivalent of my happy place.† (source)
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