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
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Over the course of several years, the company tested the apparatus about 200,000 times to achieve the right effect, culminating in a patented design.—
Justin Fenner,
Robb Report,
31 Jan. 2026
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The fall of the ayatollah could empower the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, a powerful branch of Iran’s security apparatus that operates independently of the nation’s armed forces.—
Vivian Salama,
The Atlantic,
30 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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And yet, neither couple can help but dig themselves deeper and deeper, which is where the cottage stuff comes in.—
Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
31 Jan. 2026
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Joelie Fetterman, a personal shopper and stylist at Saks Fifth Avenue in Boca Raton, agreed that most South Floridians should be able to make do over the next few days with stuff lodged deep in their drawers.—
Lois K. Solomon,
Sun Sentinel,
31 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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The rise of cloud computing in the 2010s forced Cisco to decrease its reliance on hardware networking equipment.—
Lisa Eadicicco,
CNN Money,
31 Jan. 2026
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Tackle indoor DIYs like painting trim, accent walls, and replacing hardware for fast winter upgrades.—
Lee Wallender,
The Spruce,
31 Jan. 2026
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“Equipment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/equipment. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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