as in gear
items needed for the performance of a task or activity
the equipment for the polar expedition included ships, instruments, sleds, dogs, and provisions
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Recent Examples of equipment
Beach furniture: Bring it in! Beach furniture and other recreational equipment (e.g., cabanas, umbrellas, canoes, small boats, bicycles) can reduce nesting success and increase false crawls on nesting beaches when left out overnight.
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Lexie Beach, Sun Sentinel, 14 May 2025
While there’s nothing inherently wrong with the U.S. military accepting used equipment from another country, Donald Trump’s plan to use a Boeing 747 from Qatar as a new Air Force One and then keeping it for his own personal use after leaving office has too many problems to fly.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 14 May 2025
There, agents collected electronic equipment such as laptops, mobile phones and other devices at the rapper’s estates, according to a source familiar with the probe.
—Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 13 May 2025
The agency does more than just give out money: FEMA deploys experts in disaster response and recovery and maintains stockpiles of emergency equipment.
—Simmone Shah, Time, 2 May 2025
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Lexie Beach, Sun Sentinel, 14 May 2025
While there’s nothing inherently wrong with the U.S. military accepting used equipment from another country, Donald Trump’s plan to use a Boeing 747 from Qatar as a new Air Force One and then keeping it for his own personal use after leaving office has too many problems to fly.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 14 May 2025
There, agents collected electronic equipment such as laptops, mobile phones and other devices at the rapper’s estates, according to a source familiar with the probe.
—Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 13 May 2025
The agency does more than just give out money: FEMA deploys experts in disaster response and recovery and maintains stockpiles of emergency equipment.
—Simmone Shah, Time, 2 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for equipment
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The organization announced the collaboration on Wednesday with social media posts showing the women posing with the fashionable gear.—
Abby Hamblin,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 May 2025
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Brittany’s video shows them in workout gear, Whoop trackers strapped to their wrists, going head-to-head on a mat doing leg lifts and passing a medicine ball back and forth.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
8 May 2025
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This statement was a reference to Amir Jadidi (the lead actor in A Hero), who had also played in another film that was pure government propaganda — a project that had been very openly and directly funded and produced by the security apparatus of the Islamic Republic.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
5 May 2025
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Authorities have so far been unable to corral those factions, many of which fought by their side during the civil war and are now putative allies in the country’s new security apparatus.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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Shower facilities and fire pits are also available on-site.—
Amanda Ogle,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Feb. 2025
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Rikers, which is under a federal monitor, has already been slated for closure in favor of smaller facilities, but Adams has resisted closing the notorious complex.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
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That’s a lot of dog bandanas, bead kits, frosting spatulas and tchotchkes.—
Elisabeth Buchwald,
CNN Money,
2 May 2025
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When the victim’s rape kit was finally analyzed with the latest technology 15 years later, Dominaque Thorpe's DNA wasn’t there, either.—
Gina Barton,
USA Today,
2 May 2025
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Much of the best robot hardware and highest-quality robot data, as well as many of the most talented engineers, come from China, Mohammadi said.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
13 May 2025
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Andrew is a Senior Technology Reporter at Ars Technica, with a focus on consumer tech including computer hardware and in-depth reviews of operating systems like Windows and macOS.—
Andrew Cunningham,
ArsTechnica,
13 May 2025
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Here’s the really good news among the bad critical vulnerability disclosure stuff: there is no patch to install, no updates to deploy, and no action required by the user at all.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
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The audience load-in playlist for my Baby J Tour was a lot of Delfonics, Spinners, Thom Bell-adjacent stuff.—
Jason Newman,
Rolling Stone,
10 May 2025
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“Equipment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/equipment. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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