as in equivalence
the state or fact of being exactly the same in number, amount, status, or quality
rules requiring that there be parity in what schools spend on men's and women's sports
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Recent Examples of parity
Underserved student performance was also a factor, with scores on state assessments aggregated just among students who are Black, Hispanic and from low-income households compared with what is typical in the state for non-underserved students, with parity for higher being the goal.
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Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
More affordable mortgages may ultimately allow for more parity between buyers and sellers in the second half of the year.
—Ritika Gupta, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2025
The legislation provides some Chicago police officers and firefighters with higher pensions by bringing parity between Chicago and downstate first responders and helping bridge a shortfall in benefits for employees hired after 2010.
—Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
In 2020, the city council voted unanimously to give the Orleans Public Defenders office funding parity with the district attorney's office.
—Sarah Handel, NPR, 5 Aug. 2025
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Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
More affordable mortgages may ultimately allow for more parity between buyers and sellers in the second half of the year.
—Ritika Gupta, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2025
The legislation provides some Chicago police officers and firefighters with higher pensions by bringing parity between Chicago and downstate first responders and helping bridge a shortfall in benefits for employees hired after 2010.
—Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
In 2020, the city council voted unanimously to give the Orleans Public Defenders office funding parity with the district attorney's office.
—Sarah Handel, NPR, 5 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parity
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The curators wanted to include pictures of the victims and artifacts on loan from the cities; however, opponents argued these elements were offensive to veterans and portrayed a false moral equivalence between America and Japan’s actions during the war.—
Kevin Dickinson,
Big Think,
20 Aug. 2025
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Modern platforms can deliver the operational equivalence that teams expect: advanced virtual machine (VM) lifecycle management, high-availability (HA) clustering, backups, disaster recovery (DR) and more.—
Madhura Maskasky,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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Wilkerson, Wilson said, attended Edison High School in Lake Station and later got her general equivalency diploma through Portage’s adult education program.—
Amy Lavalley,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Aug. 2025
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For next gen startups with less invasive or temporary implants, demonstrating clinical equivalency to more expensive implants could usher in more nuanced assessment of value.—
Naveen Rao,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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Along with climate improvement, the UN Sustainable Development Goals also calls for improving gender equality, health and wellbeing, and innovation and infrastructure, while also reducing poverty, hunger and inequality.—
Peter Sadera,
Sourcing Journal,
2 Sep. 2025
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The task was to study equity strategies that the City of Arlington could implement to promote and encourage greater equality; to gather community input on the need to build greater equality; and to report findings and recommendations to the City Council.—
Rachel Royster
September 2,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Parity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parity. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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