on an equal footing

phrase

: in conditions where everyone has an equal chance

making it possible for poor children to compete on an equal footing with other children

Examples of on an equal footing in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Iran were not allowed to compete on an equal footing with anyone else, forced to move their base because of visa issues with some of their travelling party. — Colin Millar, New York Times, 21 July 2026

Her fiction celebrates men and women finding each other on an equal footing and reading the same books. — Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026

Women, then as now, wanted to be on an equal footing with men. — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 11 Mar. 2026

These movies have the extraordinary merit of putting the passions of love and the obstacles to relationships front and center, balancing personal desires and social obligations on an equal footing, and thereby lending bourgeois life the grandeur of tragedy. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2026

Rhymes for on an equal footing

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