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
The restaurant was also dinged after an inspector noticed food debris on kitchen equipment and employees preparing food without gloves.
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Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 4 Sep. 2025
While binoculars and telescopes enhance views, special equipment is not required.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
Each plan comes with unlimited data, and features like free installation or equipment may vary by location.
—Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Subsea pipelines and equipment at depths of nearly 9,843 feet must be inspected regularly to ensure safety.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
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Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 4 Sep. 2025
While binoculars and telescopes enhance views, special equipment is not required.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
Each plan comes with unlimited data, and features like free installation or equipment may vary by location.
—Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Subsea pipelines and equipment at depths of nearly 9,843 feet must be inspected regularly to ensure safety.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for equipment
Noun
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His gears began to grind mentally.—
Zach Sweet,
Kansas City Star,
9 Sep. 2025
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Today's bicycles all have indexed shifting, in which the levers and derailleurs snap precisely from one gear to the next.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This risk has only grown as soaring team valuations have attracted independently wealthy owners with companies and networks that extend far beyond the reach of the NBA or NBPA’s internal audit apparatuses.—
Jesse Silvertown,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Breaking structural norms To make the measurement, the team used ISOLDE’s collinear resonance ionization spectroscopy (CRIS) apparatus, which is one of the few instruments in the world capable of resolving fine details in neutron-rich nuclei.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Of the three facilities her friend recommended, The Menninger Clinic in Houston was the only one that returned her call.—
Duaa Eldeib,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
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Financing challenges, supply chain disruptions, an uncertain talent pipeline, and — critically — a widening shortfall of the uranium required to run nuclear power facilities all loom as issues for a sector seen as key to addressing electricity demand growth while weaning grids off fossil fuels.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Little truck, big dreams The high lift kits drew a lot of attention, but the lowrider trucks were just as stylish.—
Keenan Thompson,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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Take advantage of the deal, grab your roomies, and head to Costco to stock up on tailgating snacks, frozen entrees, salad kits, customer favorites, and sharing-sized chips, cookies, and cereal.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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It’s made with a gorgeous canvas material that’s embossed with black trim and silver tone hardware.—
Nicol Natale,
People.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Unlike traditional software tools that cannot detect unusual activity if legitimate login credentials are used, hardware-level security can detect unusual access patterns—like mass file transfers or abnormal read/write activity—at the physical layer.—
Camellia Chan,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Everything about Elvis, including his death-by-cardiac-arrest at 42 in Graceland, is the stuff of opera.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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By our points formula, a game in the 10s or below is D-grade, the 20s is average, the 30s above average, the 40s really good and 50s-plus next-stratosphere stuff.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Equipment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/equipment. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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