Definition of coequal
: equal with one another
- coequal branches of government
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Examples of coequal in a Sentence
in my mind illegally downloading a music file is coequal to stealing a CD from a store
Recent Examples of coequal from the Web
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But critics — some in his own party — say that by not issuing a more direct warning, Mr. McConnell is undermining Congress’s standing as a coequal branch of government — and inviting Mr. Trump to act on his impulses.
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So instead of whingy calls for another special counsel, a Congress that behaved as a branch of government coequal to the presidency would use its own powers to force oversight on resisting federal officials.
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All this is to say that Nunes has a fairly revolutionary attitude towards his role as chairman of an oversight committee, and as a member of a coequal branch of government charged with checking the power of the Executive.
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And let Congress start acting like the coequal branch of government the Founders intended—and get to the bottom of a story that involves the legitimacy of the presidency, the 2016 election and our federal institutions.
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The framers intended for the federal judiciary to be coequal to its political counterparts, serving as an indispensable check against an encroaching federal government.
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The Framers of our Constitution made the Congress and the President coequal branches of government.
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But Congress, as a coequal branch, also has the responsibility to investigate allegations of wrongdoing.
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My expectation is that this will depend on conservatives’ ability to thoughtfully defend the Constitution’s system of three coequal branches. ...
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First Known Use of coequal
14th century
coequal Synonyms
Antonyms
different, disparate, dissimilar, distant, distinct, distinctive, distinguishable, diverse, nonidentical, other, unalike, unlike;
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Related Words
akin, alike, analogous, comparable, coordinate, correspondent, corresponding, equivalent, like, look-alike, matching, parallel, similar, such, suchlike, synonymous, tantamount;
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