as in equivalence
the state or fact of being exactly the same in number, amount, status, or quality
rules requiring that there be parity in what schools spend on men's and women's sports
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Recent Examples of parity
The Big 12 is so stocked with parity that anyone — well, almost anyone — can become the 2025 version of Arizona State.
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Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
Just last year, Delaware fined Highmark $329,000 for violating mental health parity laws, which aim to ensure that mental health and physical health insurance claims are treated equally.
—Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
The simplest left-right symmetric scenario is the Pati-Salam model, which would have no parity violation, but parity violation is robustly observed.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
Measured in terms of purchasing power parity (used to compare the economic well-being, living standards, and production volumes of countries by adjusting for differences in price levels), the EU's share of world GDP has fallen from 27.5% in 1980 to 14.1% in 2025.
—Sophie Kiderlin,holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2025
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Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
Just last year, Delaware fined Highmark $329,000 for violating mental health parity laws, which aim to ensure that mental health and physical health insurance claims are treated equally.
—Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
The simplest left-right symmetric scenario is the Pati-Salam model, which would have no parity violation, but parity violation is robustly observed.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
Measured in terms of purchasing power parity (used to compare the economic well-being, living standards, and production volumes of countries by adjusting for differences in price levels), the EU's share of world GDP has fallen from 27.5% in 1980 to 14.1% in 2025.
—Sophie Kiderlin,holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parity
Noun
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That false equivalence, Sadeghi noted, is part of a broader retrieval problem.—
Tor Constantino,
Forbes.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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The curators wanted to include pictures of the victims and artifacts on loan from the cities; however, opponents argued these elements were offensive to veterans and portrayed a false moral equivalence between America and Japan’s actions during the war.—
Kevin Dickinson,
Big Think,
20 Aug. 2025
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As at many schools, CAMP at Millersville is also linked with programs that help migrant students earn their high school equivalency diplomas, known as HEP.—
Jordan Owens,
NPR,
22 Sep. 2025
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Wilkerson, Wilson said, attended Edison High School in Lake Station and later got her general equivalency diploma through Portage’s adult education program.—
Amy Lavalley,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Aug. 2025
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When reconciled with the Catholic premise of celestial unity, the diversity of the New World’s peoples could support the ideal of equality.—
Greg Grandin
September 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
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Yet enduring change requires a long-term, cross-sector approach that links investment to accountability and measurable equality goals.—
Danette Leighton,
Time,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Parity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parity. Accessed 27 Sep. 2025.
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