in my mind illegally downloading something from the Internet is coequal to stealing from a store
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Trump has instituted a pay-to-play system for his allies and unilaterally started wars while disregarding Congress’s authority as a coequal branch of government.—Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026 But the power of our democratic republic, built on three, coequal branches of government, is clearer than ever before.—Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026 That worked when the president and the Congress worked together as coequal branches of the government, Rackaway said.—Michael Collins, USA Today, 25 Feb. 2026 This is, perhaps, not the best strategy for dealing with a branch that is not only coequal but whose members possess lifetime tenure.—Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for coequal