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
Through Beyond50, the partners aim to increase hemp content in denim to 50 percent or more while maintaining performance parity with conventional cotton by applying two pioneering technologies to the process.
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Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
Achieving cost parity with China for batteries requires production at scale, and that scale depends on strong, sustained demand for EVs, the largest battery consumer.
—Rebecca A. Fannin, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Ehm found monk administrators tended to endorse the Dalai Lama’s calls for gender parity in name without directly supporting nuns’ education.
—Darcie Price-Wallace, The Conversation, 26 Sep. 2025
The final matchup of the opening round of the WNBA playoffs had just as much action and excitement as the previous games earlier in the week, again pointing to the parity across the league.
—Allison Smith, Forbes.com, 20 Sep. 2025
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Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
Achieving cost parity with China for batteries requires production at scale, and that scale depends on strong, sustained demand for EVs, the largest battery consumer.
—Rebecca A. Fannin, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Ehm found monk administrators tended to endorse the Dalai Lama’s calls for gender parity in name without directly supporting nuns’ education.
—Darcie Price-Wallace, The Conversation, 26 Sep. 2025
The final matchup of the opening round of the WNBA playoffs had just as much action and excitement as the previous games earlier in the week, again pointing to the parity across the league.
—Allison Smith, Forbes.com, 20 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parity
Noun
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There can be no equivalences drawn between the two political extremes in this country, especially when one extreme is led by a man who rarely speaks without lying.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
9 Oct. 2025
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That false equivalence, Sadeghi noted, is part of a broader retrieval problem.—
Tor Constantino,
Forbes.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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At first, though, there was little doubt in the North that there was no moral equivalency of cause with the South.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
5 Oct. 2025
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As at many schools, CAMP at Millersville is also linked with programs that help migrant students earn their high school equivalency diplomas, known as HEP.—
Jordan Owens,
NPR,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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However, Takaichi appears unlikely to prioritize issues of gender equality.—
NPR,
NPR,
21 Oct. 2025
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Progress toward gender equality has been slow in Japan, where women are far outnumbered at the highest levels of business and government and bear a disproportionate responsibility for child care and household chores.—
Arata Yamamoto,
NBC news,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Parity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parity. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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