equated; equating
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: to treat, represent, or regard as equal, equivalent, or comparable
equates disagreement with disloyalty
: to correspond as equal
Examples of equate in a Sentence
You shouldn't equate those two things.
a value system that equates money with success
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This was especially true as business interests, working to undermine progressive New Deal labor policies such as a federal minimum wage and unemployment insurance, openly equated support for these policies with Communism.
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Rebecca Brenner Graham / Made By History, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
Aside from the lack of basic human compassion on display, this was a gross effort to equate diversity with incompetence.
—Ginger Cassady, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025
The order equates gender identity with other health issues like eating, sleep, depression and other illnesses Americans live with chronically and are treatable by therapy and prescribed medications.
—Trans Formations Project, Them, 31 Jan. 2025
While the cause of the crash isn't yet known, Trump implicitly equated racial, gender and other forms of diversity with a lower-quality federal workforce.
—Ivana Saric, Axios, 30 Jan. 2025
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Rebecca Brenner Graham / Made By History, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
Aside from the lack of basic human compassion on display, this was a gross effort to equate diversity with incompetence.
—Ginger Cassady, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025
The order equates gender identity with other health issues like eating, sleep, depression and other illnesses Americans live with chronically and are treatable by therapy and prescribed medications.
—Trans Formations Project, Them, 31 Jan. 2025
While the cause of the crash isn't yet known, Trump implicitly equated racial, gender and other forms of diversity with a lower-quality federal workforce.
—Ivana Saric, Axios, 30 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for equate
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“Equate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/equate. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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