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
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, an early activist for transgender rights and one of the protesters in the Stonewall Inn riots that sparked the modern movement for LGBTQ+ equality, has died.
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Michael Collins, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
Dispelling shame and striving for equality was a strategy used by fourteen women.
—JSTOR Daily, 13 Oct. 2025
China today opened a global summit on women’s rights, a marker of its growing diplomatic ambition as well as its own fitful efforts to strengthen gender equality.
—Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Those moves helped Kentucky rise five spots — the most of any state — in Out Leadership’s 2025 State Climate Index, which ranks states according to their equality measures, attitudes and policies towards LGBTQ+.
—Sarah Henry, Louisville Courier Journal, 13 Oct. 2025
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Michael Collins, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
Dispelling shame and striving for equality was a strategy used by fourteen women.
—JSTOR Daily, 13 Oct. 2025
China today opened a global summit on women’s rights, a marker of its growing diplomatic ambition as well as its own fitful efforts to strengthen gender equality.
—Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Those moves helped Kentucky rise five spots — the most of any state — in Out Leadership’s 2025 State Climate Index, which ranks states according to their equality measures, attitudes and policies towards LGBTQ+.
—Sarah Henry, Louisville Courier Journal, 13 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for equality
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There can be no equivalences drawn between the two political extremes in this country, especially when one extreme is led by a man who rarely speaks without lying.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
9 Oct. 2025
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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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At first, though, there was little doubt in the North that there was no moral equivalency of cause with the South.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
5 Oct. 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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“Equality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/equality. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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