tantamount

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Recent Examples of tantamount Meta's fact-checking partners are rebutting Mark Zuckerberg's suggestion on Tuesday that their work is tantamount to censorship. Kate Gibson, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2025 Image With Russian forces holding the initiative on the battlefield, President Vladimir V. Putin has rejected any settlement short of a deal that would be tantamount to Ukrainian surrender. Marc Santora, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024 This wide variety of rights holders are alleging that AI companies have used their work to train what are often highly lucrative and powerful AI models in a manner that is tantamount to theft. Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2024 To protest that ‘The Insider’ is a dramatization, as if drama is automatically tantamount to falseness, is ridiculous. Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for tantamount
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  • The development is analogous to NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services program, diversifying China’s options for supplying the Tiangong space station.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The department’s usage is expected to be analogous to the breakdown of the BCA’s report.
    Graham P. Johnson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Still, whether productions opt to shoot in California at historically comparable levels will depend on changes to the program outside of the increase to its cap.
    Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2025
  • That slightly positive metric ended eight consecutive quarters of comparable sales declines.
    Melissa Repko, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Though these drinks are exiting stage left, there are drinks with similar tastes and flavors that will remain.
    Moná Thomas, People.com, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The look was similar to her 2025 White House portrait outfit, which also featured a Dolce & Gabbana blazer with Ralph Lauren cummerbund and trousers.
    WWD Staff, WWD, 24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Meta’s need for new nuclear power, for example, is nearly equivalent to the entire 4.8 gigawatts of generating capacity at the Vogtle plant, enough to power more than 2 million homes and businesses.
    Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 23 Feb. 2025
  • The 625 million acres is roughly equivalent to 976,562.5 square miles.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2025

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“Tantamount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tantamount. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.

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