as in equivalence
the consideration of two or more things as equal
The speech deftly made an equation between the values of self-sacrifice and those of patriotism.
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Recent Examples of equation
A day earlier, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg suggested that the overall situation is nuanced and that early reports and results from a single model don’t fundamentally change the equation.
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Cj Haddad, CNBC, 1 Feb. 2025
On the smart-monitor side of the equation, the 32SR85U can access popular apps and stream content via webOS 23.
—PCMAG, 31 Jan. 2025
This fake research can confound legitimate researchers who must wade through dense equations, evidence, images and methodologies, only to find that they were made up.
—Cyril Labbé, The Conversation, 31 Jan. 2025
Remove global pandemics from the equation, and 2024-25 is tracking to become the most successful season for road teams since the Big 12 came into existence in 1996.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2025
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Cj Haddad, CNBC, 1 Feb. 2025
On the smart-monitor side of the equation, the 32SR85U can access popular apps and stream content via webOS 23.
—PCMAG, 31 Jan. 2025
This fake research can confound legitimate researchers who must wade through dense equations, evidence, images and methodologies, only to find that they were made up.
—Cyril Labbé, The Conversation, 31 Jan. 2025
Remove global pandemics from the equation, and 2024-25 is tracking to become the most successful season for road teams since the Big 12 came into existence in 1996.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for equation
Noun
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Her characters, buffeted by the era’s fluctuating currencies, inherited this crisis of equivalence.—
Laurence Scott,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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The Madness can traffic in false equivalences—a common pitfall of political fiction that values moderation as an end in itself.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
28 Nov. 2024
Noun
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No analogy is perfect, but a different historical moment feels, to me, more immediate and more challenging as a reference point.—
Robert Pinsky,
The New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2025
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The New Orleans native shared an analogy of a five-year-old who imagines being the knight in shining armor and having to slay a dragon to save the princess in a tower.—
Mya Abraham,
VIBE.com,
28 Jan. 2025
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Litchfield’s Adult Basic Education program offers inmates at the Meeker County Detention Center an opportunity to use that time wisely – either brushing up on basic skills or working toward a high school equivalency diploma.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Correlating the removal of a platform’s fact-checking with benefits to creators such as lower likelihood of a shadow ban—as Lessin does—could very well be a false equivalency, given the algorithms determining content distribution have never been transparent in the first place.—
Cherie Brooke Luo,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Equation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/equation. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
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