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 Investor demand through vehicles like the iShares Bitcoin Trust's gold equivalents and physical ETFs has expanded the accessible buyer base. Jason Kirsch, Forbes.com, 8 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 Radiators and solar arrays can consume 65 to 70 percent of total satellite mass, and space-grade photovoltaics run orders of magnitude more expensive than terrestrial equivalents. IEEE Spectrum, 11 June 2026
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Noun
  • Placing a human in a tank or plane makes these vehicles larger, more easily trackable, and trickier to deploy than their unmanned counterparts.
    Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 18 July 2026
  • Nor are their higher-budget counterparts, such as superhero flicks and Disney’s live-action retreads of its own catalog, both of which spent much of this century eclipsing box office records.
    Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 18 July 2026
Noun
  • Federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial agencies, alongside international law enforcement partners and host nation authorities, are all contributing to the security architecture for this tournament.
    Adam Leventhal, New York Times, 19 July 2026
  • Those companies, known as delivery service partners, are responsible for paying the infraction.
    A.D. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2026
Noun
  • Hashesh and her colleagues detailed their findings in a study published today in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 17 July 2026
  • This story is based on dozens of interviews with Jean, her friends and colleagues, law enforcement officials, psychologists, academics and experts in the field of romance scams, as well as a review of more than 10,000 messages.
    Juliet Linderman, Fortune, 16 July 2026

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“Equivalents.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/equivalents. Accessed 21 Jul. 2026.

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