Editorial »

How to use the word equivalent in a Sentence?

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

Filter by category:

190 results found

After listening to the audio file supplied by CNN, I agree that the content is equivalent to the legal analysis appearing throughout my SJQ and discussed extensively during my Senate confirmation hearing. Additionally, the transcript supplied by CNN appears to track with the audio and accurately recounts my responses during the phone call—when quoted in full.

The Washington Post

Found on CNN
11 months ago

I used the DOJ-OLP manual to run searches for all media but did not locate this interview and did not recall this event, which involved a call-in to a local radio show, after listening to the audio file supplied by CNN, I agree that the content is equivalent to the legal analysis appearing throughout my SJQ and discussed extensively during my Senate confirmation hearing. Additionally, the transcript supplied by CNN appears to track with the audio and accurately recounts my responses during the phone call—when quoted in full.

Matthew Kacsmaryk

Found on CNN
11 months ago

The snow water equivalent in the snowpack that’s still on the ground is in the top 10 or 20% compared to historic years, so there’s really just quite a lot of snow water out there, with temperatures on the colder side for this winter, it hasn’t had a chance to melt out slowly yet.

Masha Hoy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As the capabilities of narrow-body airplanes grow, they are taking on long-haul missions – flying increasingly further, the result is an inherent desire for increased comfort and features equivalent to wide-body airplanes.

Stephanie Faulk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

To put things in perspective, Matamoros is about 1,360 miles away from Cancun ; that’s about the equivalent distance from the Texas side of the border to Chicago, Illinois.

Zachary Rabinor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The trouble with cold therapy, which might be seen as the equivalent of light therapy, is that it doesn’t seem to last, if you’re in the cool air conditioning, it helps you while you’re in it, but then when you go outside — my patients have described it as being hit by a wall of heat.

Norman Rosenthal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Twenty billion dollars is the equivalent of every penny Egypt has borrowed from the IMF since 2016, and it disappeared in weeks (last year).

Timothy Kaldas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One uses the same system we developed to treat very old mice, the equivalent of an 80-year-old human. And they still got the mice to live longer, which is remarkable. So they’ve kind of beaten us to the punch in that experiment.

David Sinclair

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Delivery is a technical hurdle, but other groups seem to have done well, one uses the same system we developed to treat very old mice, the equivalent of an 80-year-old human. And they still got the mice to live longer, which is remarkable. So they’ve kind of beaten us to the punch in that experiment.

David Sinclair

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You know, in Phoenix, we had to take down — working with CBP, who are phenomenal partners, I should add — where we seized in one vehicle interdiction enough fentanyl to kill the equivalent of the entire state of Pennsylvania.

Fox News

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Because of the timing, our message is being conflated by some as being equivalent to the recent statement by Republican Leader McCarthy threatening an end to aid to Ukraine if Republicans take over, nothing could be further from the truth.

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The CHNS could be that people who drink more tea avoid or less often drink more harmful sugary drinks or equivalent, or that they have other health behaviors that lead them to have lower risks of type 2 diabetes, the findings need to be taken with a very large pinch of salt( or cup of tea).

Naveed Sattar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If they do that, it could be the the 2022 equivalent of' Mission Accomplished,'.

Tom Kloza

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It doesn't make sense to pursue 1 %, 2 % or even 5 % in cash back( or an equivalent amount of airline miles or hotel points) if you're paying a high interest rate.

Ted Rossman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In this study, a twofold increase in physical activity was equivalent to about 2.75 fewer years of processing speed aging in women, further, each extra cognitive activity corresponded to 13 fewer years of processing speed aging on average between women and men.

Richard Isaacson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I need an equivalent of Ron DeSantis, a Democrat, but not a 70 - or 80-year-old — a younger person, someone who knows what worked for you in 1980 is not going to work for you in 2022 or 2024.

Alex Wyshyvanuk

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The moral equivalent of saying that voter turnout defuses or disproves voter suppression is like saying that more people getting in the water means there are no longer any sharks.

Stacey Abrams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They're essentially the marine equivalent of an island species, the vaquitas' naturally low abundance has allowed them to gradually purge highly deleterious recessive gene variants that might negatively affect their health under inbreeding.

Jacqueline Robinson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

SARS-CoV-2 so far has been evolving about twice as fast as influenza H3N2, about four times as fast as influenza H1N1, and about 10 times as fast as B/Victoria, this means that if you look here at Omicron-like viruses, in just two years' time, since the start of the pandemic, we've accomplished about five years of equivalent evolution.

Trevor Bedford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This means that if you look here at Omicron-like viruses, in just two years' time, since the start of the pandemic, we've accomplished about five years of equivalent evolution, the evolution has been remarkably fast so far.

Trevor Bedford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Obviously, the ones I’d keep aneye on are telecommunications,and banking and energy, oil and gascompanies, because those are theones that would most hurt thecountry.That would be his equivalent ofsanctions against the U.S.economy.

President Biden in Brussels

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That amounts to losing the equivalent of about a roll and a half in the new 18-count package.

Edgar Dworsky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You're problem-solving when things are easy, it's the equivalent of practicing a free throw during practice versus only waiting to practice a free throw when the game is on the line.

Becky Kennedy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Right now, there is still a lot of' viewing margin' around the disc, enabling stunning detail to be captured by FSI out to about 3.5 million kilometres, equivalent to five times the radius of the Sun, at closest approach on 26 March, which will see the spacecraft pass within about 0.3 times the Sun-Earth distance, the Sun will fill a much larger portion of the telescope's field of view.

The ESA

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Discuss these sample sentences with the community:

0 Comments

    Are we missing a good definition for equivalent? Don't keep it to yourself...

    Word of the Day

    Would you like us to send you a FREE new word definition delivered to your inbox daily?

    Please enter your email address:



    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Chrome

    Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Firefox

    Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Browse Definitions.net

    Quiz

    Are you a words master?

    »
    a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect
    A affront
    B efface
    C abhor
    D loom