as in gear
items needed for the performance of a task or activity
the equipment for the polar expedition included ships, instruments, sleds, dogs, and provisions
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Recent Examples of equipment
Rusting equipment lies scattered about and the ruins of the company store still stand.
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Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 29 Jan. 2026
They must be capped and the equipment removed before the sale is complete, Clark said.
—Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2026
The research that can be done at a small liberal-arts college, with its more modest labs and equipment, is necessarily constrained.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
The medical equipment company jumped 2% after fourth-quarter results beat estimates.
—Pia Singh, CNBC, 29 Jan. 2026
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Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 29 Jan. 2026
They must be capped and the equipment removed before the sale is complete, Clark said.
—Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2026
The research that can be done at a small liberal-arts college, with its more modest labs and equipment, is necessarily constrained.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
The medical equipment company jumped 2% after fourth-quarter results beat estimates.
—Pia Singh, CNBC, 29 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for equipment
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This year’s winners netted more than $60,000 in prizes, including dive cruises and underwater photography gear.—
Leslie Katz,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Instead, the 35-year-old is shifting gears by turning her troubled past into a new trade.—
Jermont Terry,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Firmly in control of the nation’s massive federal apparatus, MAGA and its Republican lickspittles in Congress have thrived on chaos.—
Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
23 Jan. 2026
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Lam’s expansion of the state security apparatus with broader police authority over legislation and businesses also has sharpened a long-running rivalry with the military, which controls extensive commercial interests, analysts said.—
Aniruddha Ghosal,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2026
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Entire facilities have been partially or fully closed because conditions became untenable.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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His family spent an agonizing week searching through morgues, hospitals and detention facilities before finally identifying his body among piles of corpses, also shown in the viral footage.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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According to Stephanie Hunt, founder and creative director of The Flairhunter, the trend is now about intentionally curating meaningful objects into living spaces rather than simply layering more stuff.—
Amanda Lauren,
Forbes.com,
25 Jan. 2026
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Otherwise, the Werk Room stuff is all fun but inconsequential.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
24 Jan. 2026
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This zero-distance ethos produced an indoor mushroom grower during COVID, co-created with influencers who sold grow kits on social media.—
Lilian Raji,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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Meal kits include s’mores fixings for roasting over the firepits.—
Jenny Willden,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 Jan. 2026
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His most outstanding rating has been on Aeva Technologies (AEVA), a sensing hardware and perception software provider.—
TipRanks.com Staff,
CNBC,
25 Jan. 2026
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Every one of these new bits of hardware introduced a new set of uncoordinated chatter of alarms that simply produced noise.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
24 Jan. 2026
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“Equipment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/equipment. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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