counterparts

plural of counterpart

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Recent Examples of counterparts Manchester City have not spread the load in the same way as some of their counterparts. Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025 Burros need to consume much more plant material than their native grazing counterparts, like bighorn sheep or mule deer, due to their less efficient digestive systems. John Leos, AZCentral.com, 23 Oct. 2025 These employers, who have more than 5,000 workers, are much more likely than their smaller counterparts to offer such a benefit. Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025 The new Aritzia joins its counterparts at Aventura Mall and the Miami Design District. Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025 The bilingual social service workers’ monolingual counterparts did not receive the equity increase. Richard Halstead, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025 This powerful serum has an eye-popping 30% concentration of THD ascorbate—a form of vitamin C known for being both gentler and more effective than its counterparts. Deanna Pai, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2025 When healthy, the Chargers have an offense and a defense that would be considered better than their Vikings counterparts. Elliott Teaford, Oc Register, 22 Oct. 2025 During Tuesday’s news conference, Jones, the state Democratic Party Chair, urged his Republican counterparts to join in their effort, saying the issue of election timing is nonpartisan. Ella McCarthy, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterparts
Noun
  • Using employees – the number of people – rather than full-time equivalents makes these numbers difficult to compare directly with EPA’s budget proposals.
    Chris Sellers, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Lucid also promotes the vehicle with city and freeway MPGe equivalents of 114 and 109.
    James Raia, Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The video showed dozens of videos and pictures sent to her, all featuring people eating McDonald's fries as a show of solidarity.
    Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Go through a corn maze, sip on apple cider, and take silly pictures with the cardboard cutouts.
    Kylie Petty, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Konner likes to keep her colleagues close and have multiple balls in the air.
    Esther Zuckerman, Time, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Since the start of the budget season, one Milwaukee Common Council member has been calling on his colleagues to consider defunding downtown's streetcar, also known as the Hop.
    Vanessa Swales, jsonline.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Kournikova and Iglesias welcomed twins Lucy and Nicholas in December 2017.
    Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Now, life for the mom of four boys, including 3-year-old twins Tommy and Luka, is anything but quiet.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In interviews with Fortune, Pelaez and senior software engineer John Pignato described a startup with a competitive drive, fueled by seeing peers do impressive things at close range.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Unhappy to see talented peers unable to find work, Tsui used the opportunity to produce projects for Woo and others.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In another nod to Burberry’s heritage, replicas of the 1930s clock from the brand’s former flagship on Haymarket will feature in select pop-ups.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Similar complaints came from Drake and The Weeknd whose own AI replicas were pulled from streaming platforms after public outcry.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The festival's institutional partners are Brown-Forman, the Owsley Brown II Family Foundation and the Owsley Brown II Philanthropic Foundation.
    Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Streaming links in this article are provided by partners of The Athletic.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The labels have for the most part taken a cautiously experimental approach to AI music in the past several years, granting licenses to a few companies to create tools like AI voice clones or music generators, but suing several developers who didn’t get licenses for their models.
    Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Delphi’s digital clones embody that vision.
    William Jones, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Counterparts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterparts. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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