How to Use coequal in a Sentence

coequal

adjective

• They're supposed to be coequal.
  — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2025
• The three coequal chiefs of the army, navy and air force have battled it out ever since, often quite heatedly.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2020
• Those letters were milder and blamed state lawmakers, not a coequal branch of government.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2022
• This is a long-standing problem of a coequal branch of government being ignored.
  — Heather Brandon-Smith and Diana Ohlbaum, CNN, 22 June 2021
• The legislative branch behaved as a coequal branch of government.
  — Nik Popli, Time, 8 June 2026
• The legislative branch is named as sovereign, not coequal, in that document, folks.
  — Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
• The Supreme Court sits atop one of three coequal branches of the federal government.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 27 Jan. 2022
• This is completely disrespectful to us as a coequal branch of government.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 26 June 2019
• 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
• Congress is a coequal branch of the US government with the executive branch.
  — Joshua Keating, Vox, 26 Apr. 2024
• What Taeuber-Arp saw was that abstract forms could serve as coequal elements in a single creative system.
  — New York Times, 26 Nov. 2021
• The legislature is a coequal branch of government with the executive branch.
  — Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
• Part of the problem, in Tillis' mind, is that the president needs to start thinking about Congress as a coequal branch of government.
  — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 18 June 2026
• What leverage do Democrats have to force the administration to treat Congress as a coequal branch of government?
  — CBS News, 4 Jan. 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
• Little precedent exists for whether members of Congress—as officers of a coequal branch of government—must comply.
  — Siobhan Hughes, WSJ, 11 June 2021
• The argument is ultimately over whether the Council is an agency under the charter, or a separate and coequal branch.
  — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
• Pundits often suggest America should get back to having coequal branches of government.
  — Chicago Tribune, 16 June 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
• Neither does anything in the decision prohibit states or the coequal federal branches from recognizing the same.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• Like Temminck’s pangolin or coequal branches of government, retirement is in danger of going extinct.
  — Joshua Rivera, Vanity Fair, 8 June 2026
• Trump's first term was plagued by internal sabotage from bureaucrats and agency officers who fancied themselves a coequal branch of government.
  — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
• Congress, which can impose sanctions through legislation, typically insists on having its own say as a coequal branch of government.
  — Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 21 June 2017
• Speaker Mike Johnson has positioned himself as a junior partner to the president rather than a leader of a coequal branch of government.
  — Annie Karni, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
• Both of these coequal branches of government guard their powers jealously, and typically do not respond kindly to any breaches of those boundaries, perceived or otherwise.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Nov. 2020
• Centrism rejects Manichaeism, allows the natural ebb and flow of political power and respects coequal branches of government.
  — Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
• The purpose of the pardon is to be used as a check against the other coequal branches of government to protect people from being unfairly punished or having their rights otherwise deprived without due process.
  — Samuel Chambers, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2025
• The Framers of our Constitution made the Congress and the President coequal branches of government.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2017
• The code of conduct’s first good deed is putting the Supreme Court in its proper context, which is atop a judiciary that the Constitution makes a coequal branch of government.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2023
• Michel technically outranks von der Leyen in diplomatic protocol, but the two leaders typically receive coequal billing in meetings.
  — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2021