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• So by Monday, will the entire state will be on an equal footing?
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 2 June 2020
• And as an adult, asking your parent to put you on an equal footing makes sense -- to see you as an adult and not as a little girl.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 26 Feb. 2023
• The allure of the auto-battler is that everyone starts on an equal footing.
  — Wired Staff, Wired, 26 Dec. 2020
• The forces at its disposal are far smaller than those of Russia and are unable to fight on an equal footing.
  — Brett Forrest, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2022
• These new technologies, the skeptics suggested, put small firms on an equal footing with big ones.
  — Barry Eichengreen, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
• For instance, two companies with 100% growth in earnings from year two to year one would be considered on an equal footing at first glance.
  — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• For instance, two companies with 100% growth in earnings from year two to year one would be considered on an equal footing at first glance.
  — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• But our goal is to be together with all Europeans and, most importantly, to be on an equal footing.
  — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2022
• The former vice president said this agenda is necessary to place women on an equal footing with men.
  — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 29 July 2020
• Dictators love events that put them on an equal footing with democratic leaders and sitting one-on-one with the president of the United States is the most coveted prize of all.
  — Garry Kasparov, CNN, 19 June 2021
• Having a statewide law eliminates this problem by putting everyone on an equal footing.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2021
• Then came others, one or two cousins at first, and now a whole clan of shoes that share familiar characteristics and let runners from diverse tribes compete on an equal footing, or close.
  — Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 2 Feb. 2021
• Taking away those privileges puts Disney on an equal footing with other tourist attractions, Hawkins said.
  — Jeffrey Schweers, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Feb. 2023
• Nor does the legislation put crypto on an equal footing with Ukraine's national currency, the hryvnia.
  — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2021
• Some commentators have argued that the only way to put all ex-students on an equal footing would be to include with debt forgiveness compensation to those who paid down their debt.
  — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 9 June 2022
• China regards Taiwan as a renegade province and vociferously objects to any attempts to place it on an equal footing.
  — Stephanie Lai, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2020
• This is inconsistent with Zuckerberg’s position that all users are on an equal footing regarding when content is deemed offensive and removed.
  — Jena Martin, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2021
• As in any urban warfare, the maze of ruins and hiding places forces the more powerful military, in this case Russia’s, to fight on an equal footing, unable to leverage its superiority in heavy weaponry or artillery.
  — Andrew E. Kramer Mauricio Lima, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
• The lab now operates independently, outside of – and on an equal footing with – police, prosecutors, and other players in Houston’s justice system.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Apr. 2021
• As an educator, Mr. Geddes worked to put architecture on an equal footing with other academic disciplines.
  — Fred A. Bernstein, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Feb. 2023
• Bernice Rose, an art historian and curator whose groundbreaking exhibitions put traditional drawing on an equal footing with painting and sculpture, challenging notions of it as their poor cousin, died on April 16 at her home in Manhattan.
  — Carol Vogel, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• Bernice Rose, an art historian and curator whose groundbreaking exhibitions put traditional drawing on an equal footing with painting and sculpture, challenging notions of it as their poor cousin, died on April 16 at her home in Manhattan.
  — Carol Vogel, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• Since interest income from investing in municipal bonds is generally exempt from federal and state taxes for residents of the issuing state, looking at posttax-return numbers puts all states on an equal footing in terms of the correct comparison.
  — Derek Horstmeyer, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2020

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