as in halfway
located at the same distance
Points on a circle are equidistant from its center. Montreal is roughly equidistant from New York, Boston, and Toronto.
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Recent Examples of equidistant
The hotel is almost equidistant from Central Park and Greenwich Village.
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Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
The building is just a half-block from the Q train at 86th Street and is about equidistant from Carl Schurz and Central Parks.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 17 June 2025
Our apartment building was more or less equidistant from two large hospitals, and the sirens never stopped.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2025
In mid-February — almost perfectly equidistant between the Paris Olympics and the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo — five men clocked world records at distances ranging from 1500 metres up to the half-marathon.
—Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 19 Feb. 2025
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Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
The building is just a half-block from the Q train at 86th Street and is about equidistant from Carl Schurz and Central Parks.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 17 June 2025
Our apartment building was more or less equidistant from two large hospitals, and the sirens never stopped.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2025
In mid-February — almost perfectly equidistant between the Paris Olympics and the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo — five men clocked world records at distances ranging from 1500 metres up to the half-marathon.
—Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 19 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for equidistant
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Only two of Swift’s albums appear below the halfway mark on the 200-spot ranking.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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As Phoenix passes the halfway mark of this year’s monsoon, dramatic downpours, gusty haboobs and streaks of lightning across the sky have been mostly absent.—
Hayleigh Evans,
AZCentral.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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The moon's path during a total lunar eclipse The Earth's shadow will cover the entire moon's surface at the center of the umbra, the deepest, innermost part of the shadow.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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The film’s non-judgmental narration — read by Jacek Zubiel — comments on the characters’ innermost thoughts along the way, adding to the general patina of narcissism without pointing fingers or placing blame.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
4 Sep. 2025
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In Chicago, the heroine, Roxie Hart (Renee Zellweger), envisions herself in musical numbers, a vibrant inner fantasy come to life.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Sep. 2025
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One of the fundamental threats to (or from) contemporary culture, then, is the absolute suffocation and depletion of inner life, a massification that stupefies and typifies.—
Elaine L. Wang
September 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Equidistant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/equidistant. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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