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equal to something in value, meaning, or effect
His statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt. They see any criticism of the President as tantamount to treason.
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Recent Examples of tantamount
In a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday, the pope said refusing to help the poor and strangers was tantamount to rejecting God himself.
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Reuters, NBC news, 25 Dec. 2025
The rap world came to interpret this as tantamount to snitching, a violation of a sacred rule in the streets.
—Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2025
Ukrainian Presidency | Anadolu | Getty Images There are, however, concerns over the legal ramifications and the potential retaliation from Moscow; Russia’s security council chief warned last week that using Russian assets would be tantamount to a justification for war.
—Holly Ellyatt,dan Murphy, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2025
The initial 28-point draft plan that emerged from Witkoff's conversations with Russian officials was criticized by Ukraine and its European allies as tantamount to capitulation to Moscow.
—Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
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Reuters, NBC news, 25 Dec. 2025
The rap world came to interpret this as tantamount to snitching, a violation of a sacred rule in the streets.
—Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2025
Ukrainian Presidency | Anadolu | Getty Images There are, however, concerns over the legal ramifications and the potential retaliation from Moscow; Russia’s security council chief warned last week that using Russian assets would be tantamount to a justification for war.
—Holly Ellyatt,dan Murphy, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2025
The initial 28-point draft plan that emerged from Witkoff's conversations with Russian officials was criticized by Ukraine and its European allies as tantamount to capitulation to Moscow.
—Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tantamount
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The possibility of the Justice Department releasing the emails upon Congressional order seven years later would have been an unlikely scenario for Karp to imagine, though ironically there was an analogous set of circumstances in the Gruden case.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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Inoculation theory proposes that psychological inoculation – analogous to getting a medical vaccination – can immunize people against persuasive attacks.—
Bingbing Zhang,
The Conversation,
4 Feb. 2026
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The unit reported 20 quarters of comparable sales growth under his leadership.—
Alexander Coolidge,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
9 Feb. 2026
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The result is that all the protons and electrons in the star are crushed into neutrons, and the mass of the incredibly dense object remains comparable to the sun, but the size is comparable to a city, as explained by NASA.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2026
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Before Thursday night’s ceremony, Stafford walked the red carpet with his wife and daughters, the young girls all wearing similar dresses.—
Gary Klein,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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Insights into Alzheimer’s Interestingly, the molecular tricks spiders use to spin their webs are similar to the sophisticated signaling processes found in human neurotransmitter and hormone receptors.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Feb. 2026
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Eight petitions didn’t meet the narrow criteria for resentencing — in four cases, for example, the petitioner’s sentence was not considered to be equivalent to life without parole — and nine petitions are pending.—
Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Feb. 2026
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Viewing this new policy as equivalent to fomenting slave rebellion, the South rejected any exchange of Black soldiers and did not extend them the protections of prisoners of war.—
Drew Gilpin Faust,
The Atlantic,
8 Feb. 2026
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“Tantamount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tantamount. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.
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