equivalents

plural of equivalent
as in counterparts
one that is equal to another in status, achievement, or value that huge mansion at the end of the street is the equivalent of five ordinary houses

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Recent Examples of equivalents There are fewer unions, and the West End artists are paid less money than their equivalents on Broadway. Katie North, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 The exhibitor generated $190 million in free cash flow and ended the quarter with $778 million of cash and cash equivalents. Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 20 July 2026 Google describes the resulting deployment as about 50 server-equivalents worth of compute at a fraction of the usual cost. New Atlas, 2 July 2026 Neither Borgen nor Clifton qualifies as blue-line equivalents. Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 2 July 2026 Among them are selfie sticks (or equivalents), oversized hats, clothing bearing political statements and large flags. Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026 The Bay Area was handed, unquestionably, the worst slate of group-stage games FIFA’s bureaucrats could manifest — five equivalents of a Tuesday night MACtion football game in a November blizzard. Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 26 June 2026 His poetry is notoriously difficult to translate because of its highly ornate, extended metaphors, which have few easy equivalents in English. Krupa Shandilya, The Conversation, 25 June 2026 Attrition rates among offshore employees can run significantly higher than their onshore equivalents, not because the talent is weaker, but because the employment experience often is. William Jones, USA Today, 18 June 2026
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Noun
  • Junk food is an aphrodisiac here, with KFC buckets and oodles of brightly colored brand-name candy acting as culinary counterparts to the junk cinema that’s activated something in the movie’s characters and its creator.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The Palm Beach County school district, like its Broward and Miami-Dade counterparts, is facing the issue of decreasing enrollment.
    Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • This annual autumn release allows manufacturing partners like TSMC to efficiently allocate custom silicon production for high-volume runs.
    Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Some people have uninstalled the apps in protest or tried to upload their chat histories into other apps to try to resurrect their virtual partners.
    ABC News, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • In interviews, colleagues and friends have painted the portrait of Galliano before his downfall as a brilliant designer as well as an incorrigible drunk who trashed hotel rooms.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
  • To that end, Gabler and her colleagues wanted to know more about the composition of the slime of a particular kind of terrestrial species that's native to central Europe, called Cepaea nemoralis, or the brown-lipped snail.
    Ari Daniel, NPR, 6 Aug. 2026

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“Equivalents.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/equivalents. Accessed 11 Aug. 2026.

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