as in equivalence
the state or fact of being exactly the same in number, amount, status, or quality
as long as there's a rough equivalency in the armaments of the two countries, neither is likely to attack the other
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Recent Examples of equivalency
The truest equivalency for this, around here, was Dave Checketts hiring Pat Riley, coaxing him out of retirement and bringing him to New York to coach the Knicks.
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Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2026
The Collegiate Consulting study focuses largely on branding and visibility through a metric known as advertising value equivalency (AVE), which measures how much advertising would cost with equivalent exposure.
—Michael McGough, Sacbee.com, 8 Mar. 2026
In their minds, there’s an equivalency, but there really isn’t.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025
At first, though, there was little doubt in the North that there was no moral equivalency of cause with the South.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 Oct. 2025
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Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2026
The Collegiate Consulting study focuses largely on branding and visibility through a metric known as advertising value equivalency (AVE), which measures how much advertising would cost with equivalent exposure.
—Michael McGough, Sacbee.com, 8 Mar. 2026
In their minds, there’s an equivalency, but there really isn’t.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025
At first, though, there was little doubt in the North that there was no moral equivalency of cause with the South.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for equivalency
Noun
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That’s a false equivalence a lot of the time.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
17 June 2026
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There are journalists curious about making the leap, journalists who already made it and want to evangelize, and journalists who are furious at him for making some kind of equivalence between these jobs and journalism.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
9 June 2026
Noun
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Taking the microphone at the top of the meeting, Hegseth also railed against migration and gender equality policies in Europe, in remarks reminiscent to those of Vice President JD Vance in February last year that angered many Europeans.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
18 June 2026
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While defense ministers and military officers sat in silence, Hegseth railed against migration and gender equality policies in Europe, in remarks reminiscent to those of Vice President JD Vance in February last year that angered many Europeans.—
Lorne Cook,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
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“Equivalency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/equivalency. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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