as in alike
in an equal manner or to an equal degree
They love all their children equally. The new method is more efficient and equally effective.
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Recent Examples of equally
The pants offer an effortlessly chic, fashion-forward silhouette that looks equally at home on a tropical beach or a rooftop terrace.
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Robin Raven, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2026
And keeping the tone of the show grounded in reality, is the equally brilliant Hiro Murai.
—Stephen Root, IndieWire, 3 June 2026
Balancing these equally important rights is paramount to our decision today.
—Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 3 June 2026
The Connaught’s watering holes are equally iconic.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 June 2026
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Robin Raven, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2026
And keeping the tone of the show grounded in reality, is the equally brilliant Hiro Murai.
—Stephen Root, IndieWire, 3 June 2026
Balancing these equally important rights is paramount to our decision today.
—Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 3 June 2026
The Connaught’s watering holes are equally iconic.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for equally
Adverb
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The rapidly ballooning market of the 1980s accommodated both kinds of art—art that might have been called critical, as well as art that might have been termed complicit, Pictures artists and neo-expressionists alike.—
Katy Siegel,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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To friends and strangers alike, our unusual authorly posture—two spouses, both with academic backgrounds but neither presently working in academia, teaming up to write a trade book on a literary subject—is a source of bemusement.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
Adverb
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Comparing equivalently aged devices, the gap is clear.—
Janhoi McGregor,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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Yet all the while, the entropy within that volume — because the Universe expands adiabatically, or equivalently, isentropically — remains constant.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
9 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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The energy from an earthquake doesn’t travel through sediments uniformly.—
Chase Hunter,
Mercury News,
30 May 2026
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The American economy is not adopting artificial intelligence uniformly.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
28 May 2026
Adverb
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Everything was laid out identically to Star Fox 64, with controls and combat that felt virtually the same.—
Will Greenwald,
PC Magazine,
2 June 2026
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Finally, the sample of respondents who completed all questions in the survey was weighted identically as well as to the result for the 2026 general election horse-race question (including voters leaning a certain way) on the full sample.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
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“Equally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/equally. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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