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 His buyback calculation is based on a regulatory filing Berkshire made in July tied to Chairman Warren Buffett’s charitable stock donation, which disclosed his economic ownership of the company’s Class A share equivalents. Yun Li, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2026 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
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Noun
  • Ahead, see The Brink of War cast side-by-side with their real-life counterparts.
    Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Republicans control the White House and both branches of Congress, helping bolster their financial coffers against their Democratic counterparts, Martin noted in his remarks.
    Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 14 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Air and Water Show organizers were working with the Federal Aviation Administration and its partners to monitor conditions and ensure safety.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Rescue partners and foster families took in pets, according to its page.
    Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2026
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  • The owner of her own law firm, Campione was first elected to the Board of County Commissioners in 2010 and was unanimously selected by her colleagues to serve as Commission Chair in 2018.
    James Wilkins, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Geneticist Shigeki Nakagome of Trinity College Dublin and his colleagues analyzed 13 bone samples previously collected from an archaeological site at Camarones in northern Chile.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2026

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“Equivalents.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/equivalents. Accessed 18 Aug. 2026.

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