as in equivalence
the state or fact of being exactly the same in number, amount, status, or quality
it's absurd to suggest that there's an equality in the evil committed by the Nazis and the crimes of the government of that Asian country
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Recent Examples of equality
Both Blacks and whites, being formally equal, now perceived informal equality as a concrete possibility.
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Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
And yet, over his first few years in office, Truman proposed federal laws against lynching and poll taxes, and, when that didn’t work, used executive orders to desegregate the military and require racial equality in federal hiring.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 1 Aug. 2025
Each story like his is a milestone that honors equality, dignity, and inclusion.
—Dynishal Gross, New York Daily News, 31 July 2025
Until recently, women’s soccer outside the United States had a relatively short history which, at least in the popular imagination, was defined as much by the fight for equality off the pitch as any match on it.
—Julia Andersen, CNN Money, 30 July 2025
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Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
And yet, over his first few years in office, Truman proposed federal laws against lynching and poll taxes, and, when that didn’t work, used executive orders to desegregate the military and require racial equality in federal hiring.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 1 Aug. 2025
Each story like his is a milestone that honors equality, dignity, and inclusion.
—Dynishal Gross, New York Daily News, 31 July 2025
Until recently, women’s soccer outside the United States had a relatively short history which, at least in the popular imagination, was defined as much by the fight for equality off the pitch as any match on it.
—Julia Andersen, CNN Money, 30 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for equality
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Modern platforms can deliver the operational equivalence that teams expect: advanced virtual machine (VM) lifecycle management, high-availability (HA) clustering, backups, disaster recovery (DR) and more.—
Madhura Maskasky,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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To this end, campaigners forged an equivalence between taking sugar and drinking human blood.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 July 2025
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New York’s century-old substantial equivalency standards were designed to ensure that all students — in public, private, and religious schools — receive at least a minimally adequate education in core subjects.—
Adina Mermelstein Konikoff,
New York Daily News,
22 July 2025
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This funding supports adult learners, who, for whatever reason, may not be fully proficient in reading, may need more education to be prepared for the workforce, may need help completing high school or high school equivalency.—
Lily Altavena,
Freep.com,
16 July 2025
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“Equality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/equality. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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