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  • Or the moral equivalent.†   (source)
  • I supposed it would have been a soup kitchen of some kind, or the equivalent.†   (source)
  • baboo, babu, n. A Hindu title of respect paid to gentlemen, equivalent to master, sir.†   (source)
  • If odor could be measured in decibels, these toilets were the equivalent of front-row seats at a heavy metal concert.†   (source)
  • A Type II civilization can marshal the energy equivalent to the output of a typical star-1026 watts.†   (source)
  • Specifically, we will be testing Newton's calculation of the speed of gravity and Galileo's principle that objects with different mass fall at an equivalent rate.†   (source)
  • Grover has been the equivalent of a middle school student for the past six years.†   (source)
  • Wes mumbled the verbal equivalent of a shrug.†   (source)
  • A sound zoo enclosure is the equivalent for an animal (with the noteworthy absence of a fireplace or the like, present in every human habitation).†   (source)
  • The Jenningses helped Charlie get his general equivalency degree in detention and insisted on financing his college education.†   (source)
  • The only equivalent was if I thought about Thomas waiting to die in some strange country, and as soon as that thought came to mind it made something inside me actually flip over, it was so hideous.†   (source)
  • The DCPJ was the rough equivalent of the U.S. FBI.†   (source)
  • It was especially fun to think that people all over the world were having similar conversations in their equivalent of the Big Boy.†   (source)
  • When the wind is blowing, which it almost always is, with the walls groaning and the shutters banging, the rooms overloaded and the staircase wound tightly up through its center, the house seems the material equivalent of her uncle's inner being: apprehensive, isolated, but full of cobwebby wonders.†   (source)
  • In this respect, it could be said that Luther Driggers was the modern equivalent of Savannah's other famous inventor, Eli Whitney.†   (source)
  • Endless empty calories, but the digital-social equivalent.†   (source)
  • Long dry sunny September days are equivalent to money in the bank.†   (source)
  • Regular sex, for example, was equivalent (happinesswise) to getting a $50,000 raise.†   (source)
  • As a typical Joseph, I was attired in a dull brown robe, the biblical equivalent of a three-piece suit.†   (source)
  • "What I like best about this tree," he said in that voice of his, the equivalent in sound of a hypnotist's eyes, "what I like is that it's such a cinch!"†   (source)
  • "Payment is expected in full, to the equivalent of one thousand crowns," Farley continues.†   (source)
  • And when we bought the house, we agreed that I should pay only a percentage of the mortgage based on what I earn and what he earns, and that I should own an equivalent percentage of community property; this is written in our prenuptial agreement.†   (source)
  • Then they develop an equivalent vaccine and cure for it.†   (source)
  • Some said that it was innocence, or ignorance of the world, that protected Robbie from being harmed by it, that he was a kind of holy fool who could step across the drawing room equivalent of hot coals without harm.†   (source)
  • The year he retired, he had risen to a rank equivalent to Director.†   (source)
  • He was experiencing the aural equivalent of looking at a picture of two black silhouetted faces and suddenly seeing it as a picture of a white candlestick.†   (source)
  • No point in worrying about creaking stairs when you've just sent the intestinal equivalent of Hurricane Hal scurrying around the corridors.†   (source)
  • I took a gulp of wine—one gulp, I noticed, was equivalent to all the sips she'd taken.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Or—the equivalent.†   (source)
  • If we scratch below the surface of every great achiever, do we always find the equivalent of the Michigan Computer Center or the hockey all-star team, some sort of special opportunity for practice?†   (source)
  • It's so grimy it's practically opaque, but if I squint I can just make out a few shapes in the obscurity of the cell: a single bed with a flimsy, dirty mattress; a toilet; a bucket that looks like it might be the human equivalent of a dog's water bowl.†   (source)
  • It would be the equivalent of a splinter.†   (source)
  • For now it's a relief just to have a man to cook for, the fortysomething equivalent of driving your bike past the cute boy's house.†   (source)
  • I overheard people saying that the cost of the entry fee was the equivalent of three hundred leones.†   (source)
  • The elite Ouster equivalent of Hegemony Space Marines, the commandos would not only have been trained for free-fall combat but had been born and bred to zero-g. Their long limbs, prehensile toes, and prosthetic tails would be added advantages for this environment, although Kassad doubted that they needed any more advantages than they already had.†   (source)
  • We had on our kitchen counter the poultry equivalent of Boys Town U.S.A. The thing about roosters is they're never content to play second chair to any other rooster.†   (source)
  • Soon I was doing the mental equivalent of palming cards and juggling knives.†   (source)
  • Mama silenced her with a look that was the grownup equivalent of the old slipper on our butts.†   (source)
  • It does parabolic arcs, and at the top of each arc, you get about twenty-five seconds when you experience the rough equivalent of weightlessness.†   (source)
  • Ulysses, as we know from our earlier discussion, is the very long story of a single day in Dublin, June 16, 1904, its structure modeled on Homer's Odyssey (Ulysses being the Latin equivalent of the name of Homer's hero, Odysseus).†   (source)
  • I could feel my neck muscles begin to unknot, and somewhere inside me a pressure valve released, the emotional equivalent of a long sigh.†   (source)
  • "You must deposit at minimum the equivalent of—" Fingers twitched as she checked the exchange rate.†   (source)
  • They had churned out book after book, even once making the short-list for the Voice of the South Award, the Southern equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize.†   (source)
  • He offered Olmsted a consulting fee of one thousand dollars (equivalent to about thirty thousand today).†   (source)
  • It's the navy's equivalent to the army's Delta Force.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Cruise boxes are the modern equivalent of footlockers; they're waterproof and roughly three feet long.†   (source)
  • The Geys wanted to grow the human equivalent—they didn't care what kind of tissue they used, as long as it came from a person.†   (source)
  • Jacob went to the Quileute school, but he might still get in trouble for trespassing or the equivalent.†   (source)
  • It was the equivalent of asking a four-year-old if he'd like a lifetime supply of ice cream.†   (source)
  • The four bombs filled the Ethan Allen with the equivalent of twenty-five tons of TNT evenly distributed throughout the hull.†   (source)
  • Some words I couldn't find any Chinese equivalent for.†   (source)
  • Nothing looks stupider, these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society.†   (source)
  • No Chivas Regal here; this was the fictional equivalent of backwoods popskull.†   (source)
  • We were born about ninety-four miles apart, and in my country that's the equivalent of a sand wedge.†   (source)
  • The field was surrounded on three sides by tall trees draped in a tangle of vines and kudzu, forming nature's equivalent of an indoor arena.†   (source)
  • He left Washington wearing the equivalent of a modern-day business suit, unsuitable for camping out.†   (source)
  • Each bond was worth the equivalent of one million kronor.†   (source)
  • For him it was the equivalent of stepping on a long thorn and then yanking it out without stopping to consider the pain; it had to be done, and the faster the better.†   (source)
  • The Fremen title refers to holy judges, equivalent to saints.†   (source)
  • If someone like Pete Schoening was the equivalent of a major-league baseball star, my fellow clients and I were like a ragtag collection of pretty decent small-town softball players who'd bribed their way into the World Series.†   (source)
  • Or whatever the equivalent of buzz is in classical music.†   (source)
  • Indeed, I believe I even revealed to him several of my professional 'secrets' designed to bring that extra bit out of staff, as well as the various 'sleights-of-hand' the equivalent of a conjuror's — by which a butler could cause a thing to occur at just the right time and place without guests even glimpsing the often large and complicated manoeuvre behind the operation.†   (source)
  • If there is a secular equivalent of standing in a great spired cathedral with marble pillars and streams of mystic al light slanting through two-tier Gothic windows, it would be watching children in their little bedrooms fast asleep.†   (source)
  • Each can contains the equivalent of about ten teaspoons of sugar.†   (source)
  • Kitum Cave is Mount Elgon's equivalent of the Times Square subway station.†   (source)
  • President Pervez Musharraf heard about the case and sympathized, sending Mukhtar the equivalent of $8,300 in compensation.†   (source)
  • They'd probably want to send me to the vamp equivalent of a shrink, and oh, boy, wouldn't that help me to instill confidence in the masses as the new leader of the Dark Daughters?†   (source)
  • It was called "Tizita"; there was no single equivalent English word.†   (source)
  • The equivalent to ...fifty pence!†   (source)
  • So I guessed that even though it was blue—even farther down the rainbow than yellow—it was at least the equivalent of a red.†   (source)
  • They had met in a bar, and the next morning she had paid him the equivalent of seven dollars.†   (source)
  • The only way to truly reach me was to sneak up, crash in, bust past the barricades on the equivalent of a kamikaze mission, end result unknown.†   (source)
  • I guess it was the equivalent of a Playboy centerfold for someone.†   (source)
  • His PSAT score is equivalent to a 750 on the SATs out of a possible 1600, which would put him in the bottom third percentage of test takers.†   (source)
  • There was a strange sweet music playing, flawed with sweet-sour notes, a sort of aural equivalent of honey mixed with lemon juice, and there was a circle of faeries dancing to the music, their feet barely seeming to skim the floor.†   (source)
  • Diamond Joe passed me at the human equivalent of a full gallop.†   (source)
  • In other languagesCzech, Polish, German, and Swedish, for instance this word is translated by a noun formed of an equivalent prefixcombined with the word that means feeling (Czech,sou-cit; Polish,wspol-czucie; German,Mit-gefuhl; Swedish,med-kansia).†   (source)
  • It was formal without suggesting that going to Mrs. Flowers' house was equivalent to attending church.†   (source)
  • At Zanmi Lasante, too, patients were supposed to pay user fees, the equivalent of about eighty American cents for a visit.†   (source)
  • They sang "Feliz Cumpleaiios," the Mexican equivalent of "Happy Birthday," and everyone clapped.†   (source)
  • This doesn't necessarily mean that labeling a house "well maintained" causes it to sell for less than an equivalent house.†   (source)
  • Of course, the sights I'm most interested in seeing—besides Andrew, of course—are the Oxfams where I can find some undiscovered treasure, and maybe this place I've heard about called Topshop, which is like the British equivalent of T.J. Maxx, or maybe H&M, which we don't actually have in Michigan, but that I've heard about, of course, as a fashion lover's mecca.†   (source)
  • His combination of gutter ratings on Strategy Selection coupled with high marks on Strategy Execution are a disaster waiting to happen; the operational equivalent of running very fast in the wrong direction.†   (source)
  • He also bought me a special gift a gold necklace that cost the equivalent of three thousand dollars.†   (source)
  • This makes even Felicity blanch, and I'm certain to end up in the stocks or the equivalent.†   (source)
  • Khrushchev also knows quite well that the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima had an explosive force equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT.†   (source)
  • The Shirriffs was the name that the Hobbits gave to their police, or the nearest equivalent that they possessed.†   (source)
  • It took me another twenty years to accumulate the confidence to deal with what the equivalent experience would have to be for me.†   (source)
  • For Adams any sustained equivalent of Franklin's benign calm would have been impossible.†   (source)
  • And, on a morning after I'd been forced to withstand all the racket of clubs and parties, a quiet house was the equivalent of perfection.†   (source)
  • For an instant John considered whether this visit might be the universe's equivalent of sending him to the rector's office for a reprimand, notwithstanding the fact that the rector was dead.†   (source)
  • He proceeded to tell me how lucky I was to be in the class, and that missing this one class was equivalent to missing three classes of a regular undergraduate course.†   (source)
  • It was the equivalent of sipping gold.†   (source)
  • And if he was dreaming, which she had no reason to doubt, then every minute of sleep-for that matter, every second-could be the equivalent of hours or days or even weeks in his dream world.†   (source)
  • Kuribayashi transformed Iwo Jima into the equivalent of one huge blockhouse.†   (source)
  • It's not exactly a secret that Vlad's the equivalent of a giant mosquito, Eddie.†   (source)
  • Luke had marked his territory over the past few weeks by performing the high school equivalent of a dog peeing on a fire hydrant (holding my hand, wrapping his arm around me, sitting with me at lunch) and made me, once again, acceptable.†   (source)
  • A teacher cost the equivalent of one dollar a day, he explained, which was more than the village could afford.†   (source)
  • "Fashion leaders are concentrated among young women of high gregariousness," Labov says, calling the linguistic changes he has studied "the audible equivalent of the visual effects of fashion."†   (source)
  • I, who belonged to a religion which taught that simply to be angry with another made one liable to the judgment of God and that to hate was the equivalent of murder.†   (source)
  • I looked at the doll, thinking, The political equivalent of such entertainment is death.†   (source)
  • However, to award such exorbitant sums as claimed by the Naval officers would be the equivalent of robbery of my clients, as this voyage is already a total loss for them.†   (source)
  • He was the head of South Africa's equivalent of the CIA, and was also involved with military intelligence.†   (source)
  • The staff, each with a Four Zero clearance, consisted of two doctors and three nurses in relay units, cooks and domestic attendants recruited from the foreign service-in the main, overseas embassies-and guards, all with Ranger training or its equivalent.†   (source)
  • He went down the squad, and for each boy at each position, he called them by his Dodger equivalent.†   (source)
  • A two-kilotonne yield is equivalent to exploding two million kilograms of trinitrotoluol ....and a kilo of TNT is quite an explosion— Ask any drillman.†   (source)
  • I do not ask for much money, but only an amount equivalent to the annualization of what I have spent upon the sap.†   (source)
  • In a tiny alcove the size of a closet, there was the equivalent of an outhouse.†   (source)
  • Whatever it was that others felt, she knew that this was one emotion for which they had no equivalent and no response.†   (source)
  • In 1959, Queen Elizabeth named West a Dame Commander of the British Empire, the female equivalent of an honorary knighthood.†   (source)
  • A robot that hoisted itself up earned fifty points, the equivalent of gathering ten of the small balls.†   (source)
  • Considered to be the equivalent of one week.†   (source)
  • There was the equivalent of 'Phew' from Michael when it let up; closely followed by the repeated equivalent of Shut up!' from Petra.†   (source)
  • Consequently, he was expecting a crayon-scrawled message about evil psychic Martians living among us as Mormons—or the equivalent.†   (source)
  • It's like the school equivalent of watching Big Brother, I get to eavesdrop on the drama and it's not mentally taxing in the least.†   (source)
  • Yield equivalent to over twenty-one thousand tons of dynamite plus the radiation fallout kicker.†   (source)
  • tables for conjunction, disjunction, equivalence, and material implication.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Miss Christian will tell you that on the night of April the eleventh, she served Reverend Tester the drinks he ordered—six doubles, straight scotch, the equivalent of twelve drinks, in two hours.†   (source)
  • The shorter sessions of the State legislatures may be a saving equivalent to any additional expense from adopting the new system.†   (source)
  • He knew his managers didn't get paid enough to be woken up in the middle of their equivalent night.†   (source)
  • This is the clothing equivalent of my happy place.†   (source)
  • In addition, she would be paid the equivalent of her monthly salary from Hadassah.†   (source)
  • What institution of equivalent value would you put in its place?†   (source)
  • Each slave received eight pounds of pickled pork or its equivalent in fish, one bushel of Indian meal (corn meal), one pint of salt.†   (source)
  • In France, in the old days, if you drank Burgundy you drank it from a pint pot or the French equivalent, and you drank nothing else all evening.†   (source)
  • It may be indelicate of me to mention it, but I seem to have been equipped at birth with the equivalent of an echo chamber in my stomach regions.†   (source)
  • Total immersion would, of course, have proved fatal; but as it was, the man had traded some of his tactile sensitivity for the equivalent of invisible gauntlets, breastplate, neckpiece and back armor of steel.†   (source)
  • He was an SS Obergruppenfuhrer, the equivalent of a lieutenant general and Hoss's superior from Wroclaw; his visit had been bruited about the house for days.†   (source)
  • For instance, it is of no little importance to me that a closed room is bad for sleeping in because air once breathed parts with a sixth of its oxygen and contains an equivalent amount of carbonic acid gas.†   (source)
  • And the last that I'll read: "When we enter the moral equivalent of war, Mr. President, don't issue us BB guns."†   (source)
  • I felt that by some piece of luck I had stumbled on the equivalent of what years before Nazruddin had found right here.†   (source)
  • Somewhere up in Karellen's ship must lie the equivalent of this great room-and van Ryberg wondered, with a tingling of the spine, what shapes moved to and fro collecting the messages that Earth was sending to the Overlords.†   (source)
  • He was moved almost to tears, feeling for no reason that she had made a silent declaration equivalent to his own.†   (source)
  • We have the equivalent of the Hippocratic Oath.†   (source)
  • "Class" is not a South African word; and its equivalent, "race," meant to her the office boy in the firm where she worked, other women's servants, and the amorphous mass of natives in the streets, whom she hardly noticed.†   (source)
  • This is a challenge—his equivalent of throwing down the gauntlet.†   (source)
  • Hearthstone scowled and crossed his arms, the deaf equivalent of I can't even talk to you right now.†   (source)
  • His expression suggests that he is experiencing the gastronomic equivalent of a boy's first orgasm.†   (source)
  • For him it was equivalent to starting a sentence with "You know," or "Let me tell you."†   (source)
  • The equivalent of Gail Vance Civille and Judy Heylmun had loved Kenna.†   (source)
  • Have you ever seen an equivalent to self-control as a talent?†   (source)
  • Now each of them was the equivalent of a heavy coin in my pocket.†   (source)
  • Shiftman calls chippers the equivalent of social drinkers.†   (source)
  • Claflin was a dry-goods "commission" house, the equivalent of Brandstatter's back in Poland.†   (source)
  • "OK," whispered BB in some datumplane equivalent of a whisper, "we're here."†   (source)
  • This can be paid in paper notes, tetrarch coins, or the bartering equivalent.†   (source)
  • St. Patrick's Day in Savannah was the equivalent of Mardi Gras in New Orleans.†   (source)
  • The hole was then covered with the Renaissance equivalent of a manhole cover.†   (source)
  • We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent.†   (source)
  • Then that's equivalent to saying that the correct philosophy falls out of the sky.†   (source)
  • I handed the old man a hundred thousand Afghanis, or the equivalent of about three dollars.†   (source)
  • But did he want to turn his son into the emotional equivalent of a crowbar, or a sledgehammer?†   (source)
  • Daldoum had the equivalent of a high school education.†   (source)
  • What's the mental equivalent of a speed bag?†   (source)
  • Newspapers are a bad habit, the reading equivalent of junk food.†   (source)
  • He entered the English equivalent of this well-known Greek word.†   (source)
  • Swords could not shrug, but Jack tilted from side to side, which was his closest equivalent.†   (source)
  • The operators of the Ferris Wheel, he saw, did not take equivalent precautions.†   (source)
  • But it was a crude victory, the track and field equivalent of bludgeoning when a sword was at hand.†   (source)
  • This was the film-geek equivalent to discussing some great play in a famous football game.†   (source)
  • For Hearth, this was the equivalent of ecstatic fanboy screaming.†   (source)
  • Like the after-death equivalent of the movie Groundhog Day.†   (source)
  • "Gratis," Trina announced in a tone that was the vocal equivalent of rusted iron.†   (source)
  • There were times when he saw man, with his giant brain, as equivalent to the dinosaurs.†   (source)
  • He'd had the equivalent of two shots and already he was feeling weightless.†   (source)
  • Overnight the bodies had rotted away to the equivalent of decade-old corpses.†   (source)
  • She gave the mental equivalent of a snort at that, and then she was back to business.†   (source)
  • Unlike your mother, Bellona has no Greek equivalent.†   (source)
  • What the demons believe is that we want the demonic equivalent of Raziel.†   (source)
  • I think ...it might be the Underworld equivalent of ambrosia and nectar.†   (source)
  • There is no true equivalent in this language.†   (source)
  • I guess they are the botanical equivalent of the men in this prison.†   (source)
  • Normally, of course, but in this case it would have to be the equivalent of a workable diamond mine.†   (source)
  • It's the equivalent of building a billion-ton freighter in difficulty.†   (source)
  • It cost the Iranian equivalent of thirty dollars.†   (source)
  • Hearth developed a faint smile, which for him was the equivalent of rolling on the floor laughing.†   (source)
  • He had broken the track record by four seconds, the equivalent of some twenty-five lengths.†   (source)
  • Each woman brings the equivalent of a dime to each meeting.†   (source)
  • That makes the Soviet dictator smile: his nuclear warheads are equivalent to 1 million tons.†   (source)
  • The same bathtub from the same manufacturer retails for the equivalent of 2,000 kronor in Germany.†   (source)
  • The talk about the RPF certainly scared him, because "RPF" was clearly the equivalent of "Tutsi."†   (source)
  • The Egyptian equivalent of Deucalion was Thoth—whose daughter, Bast, was the goddess of Cats.†   (source)
  • Ghosh's equivalent of perfect pitch was to be able to tell the heart rate without a watch.†   (source)
  • He glanced at her, his eyes narrowed; he did not laugh as she had, but the glance was an equivalent.†   (source)
  • To be safe let's assume it's millions of tons of TNT equivalent.†   (source)
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