How to Use equivalent in a Sentence

equivalent

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  • Those less-known companies manufacture equivalent products at cheaper prices.
  • I haven't taken English 202, but I took an equivalent course at another university.
  • So an armed agent of the state is not equivalent to a kid on a corner.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2022
  • From just over six miles away, the noise was equivalent to a rock concert.
    — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2024
  • That one, Rafal (Kit Young) is the Voldemort-equivalent here, though a lot cuter.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2022
  • In the event of a losing wager, the new user will get bonus bets equivalent to their stake — up to $1,000.
    — Ian Firstenberg, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
  • For celebs like Blinken and Bono, the status of wartime power must seem equivalent to cool.
    — Armond White, National Review, 17 May 2024
  • The bank said that there had been an outflow equivalent to 6% of assets managed by the group at the end of the third quarter.
    — Reuters, CNN, 23 Nov. 2022
  • That's equivalent to about four or five cups of coffee.
    — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 12 May 2024
  • This feathery fringe is the bangs equivalent of wearing a silk robe.
    — Loren Savini, Allure, 2 Feb. 2023
  • But a pair of 24-inch monitors would take up an equivalent amount of space.
    — Michael J. Miller, PCMAG, 6 July 2023
  • After pleading guilty, he was sentenced to more than a year and a half in prison, which the court said was equivalent to time spent.
    — Anna Chernova, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
  • That's equivalent to the black hole inside our own galaxy, NASA said.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 7 May 2024
  • Other equivalent events such as la Grande Boucle Féminin were held, but these did not last.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
  • This value is equivalent to about a quarter of her base salary.
    — Katherine Oung, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Is there any sense of an equivalent Protestant guilt that comes out through your own music?
    — Vulture, 25 Aug. 2023
  • In audio book time, that's equivalent to 62 hours and 48 minutes.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2024
  • The brand claims that the light consumes only 10 watts but that its output is equivalent to a 50-watt halogen bulb.
    — Good Housekeeping, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The overall damage was equivalent to around one-third of the federal budget at the time.
    — Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, Journal Sentinel, 15 Oct. 2022
  • That’s equivalent to about four sheets of A4 or US letter-size paper.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN, 13 Apr. 2024
  • But that’s hardly an equivalent cost for those who don’t want to consent.
    — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
  • Goldman Sachs says the stricter lending conditions are equivalent to a quarter- to a half-point increase in the Fed rate.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The idea that that is equivalent, people are waking up to that being a little bit just bonkers.
    — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Charm bracelets are the jewelery equivalent of wearing your heart on your sleeve.
    — Alice Cary, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Think of the highway sites as being equivalent to a highway truck stop or gas station.
    — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The union has been pushing for a wage increase equivalent to nearly an extra month of pay.
    — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The queue is one of the longest, old-fashioned box office lines in the world, the sports equivalent to the infamous Studio 54 line, but a lot older.
    — David Waldstein, New York Times, 6 July 2023
  • The media value of the street race for Chicago is equivalent to six Super Bowl ads, according to the study.
    — Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2024
  • The total mass of these five dwarf galaxies appears to be around 60.2 billion solar masses (one solar mass being equivalent to the mass of the sun).
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate.
    — Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 5 Jan. 2025

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