How to Use equivalent in a Sentence

equivalent

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  • Those less-known companies manufacture equivalent products at cheaper prices.
  • I haven't taken English 202, but I took an equivalent course at another university.
  • That’s equivalent to another seven to 21 years of work to recover the savings loss.
    — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
  • It's made with super soft, thick fleece and measures 50 inches by 60 inches, which is almost equivalent to a full-size mattress.
    — Carly Kulzer, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The levels of ketamine in his body were equivalent to the amount used for general anesthesia during surgery, the medical examiner said.
    — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2024
  • That's equivalent to nearly 7% of the region's annual consumption.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Wind gusts over 140 mph are equivalent to a Category 4 hurricane.
    — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2022
  • About 41 percent of low-income immigrants had not earned a high school degree, and 26 percent had a high school diploma or the equivalent but no college education.
    — al, 10 Dec. 2022
  • In the event of a losing wager, the new user will get bonus bets equivalent to their stake — up to $1,000.
    — Ian Firstenberg, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
  • For celebs like Blinken and Bono, the status of wartime power must seem equivalent to cool.
    — Armond White, National Review, 17 May 2024
  • That's equivalent to about four or five cups of coffee.
    — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 12 May 2024
  • This feathery fringe is the bangs equivalent of wearing a silk robe.
    — Loren Savini, Allure, 2 Feb. 2023
  • But a pair of 24-inch monitors would take up an equivalent amount of space.
    — Michael J. Miller, PCMAG, 6 July 2023
  • After pleading guilty, he was sentenced to more than a year and a half in prison, which the court said was equivalent to time spent.
    — Anna Chernova, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
  • That's equivalent to the black hole inside our own galaxy, NASA said.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 7 May 2024
  • Other equivalent events such as la Grande Boucle Féminin were held, but these did not last.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
  • This value is equivalent to about a quarter of her base salary.
    — Katherine Oung, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Is there any sense of an equivalent Protestant guilt that comes out through your own music?
    — Vulture, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The brand claims that the light consumes only 10 watts but that its output is equivalent to a 50-watt halogen bulb.
    — Good Housekeeping, 28 Mar. 2023
  • That’s equivalent to about four sheets of A4 or US letter-size paper.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN, 13 Apr. 2024
  • But that’s hardly an equivalent cost for those who don’t want to consent.
    — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
  • Goldman Sachs says the stricter lending conditions are equivalent to a quarter- to a half-point increase in the Fed rate.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Charm bracelets are the jewelery equivalent of wearing your heart on your sleeve.
    — Alice Cary, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The union has been pushing for a wage increase equivalent to nearly an extra month of pay.
    — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The queue is one of the longest, old-fashioned box office lines in the world, the sports equivalent to the infamous Studio 54 line, but a lot older.
    — David Waldstein, New York Times, 6 July 2023
  • The media value of the street race for Chicago is equivalent to six Super Bowl ads, according to the study.
    — Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2024
  • The product was intended to be the software equivalent of a concept car.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2023
  • This gives you one less thing to deal with putting back on your body, plus these pants are the adult equivalent of wearing pajamas in public.
    — Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Collect all nine badges and get 750 crowns, which is equivalent to a free Whopper sandwich.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
  • The national guard brigades tend to be lighter than their equivalent brigades in the Ukrainian army, air-assault force and marine corps.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 5 May 2023

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