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equal to something in value, meaning, or effect
His statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt. They see any criticism of the President as tantamount to treason.
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Recent Examples of tantamount
Hint: if your current workforce is made up of mostly one group, this would be tantamount to saying that group inherently holds more merit, which is probably false.
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Alex Ford, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
The problems this dynamic raises, however, are not necessarily tantamount to a catastrophe.
—Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
Deadspin maintains that writing H.A. wore Black face is tantamount to calling H.A. a racist.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 9 Oct. 2024
Trusting your people to make decisions, lead, and learn from their challenges is tantamount to earning a leadership gold medal.
—Dan Pontefract, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
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Alex Ford, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
The problems this dynamic raises, however, are not necessarily tantamount to a catastrophe.
—Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
Deadspin maintains that writing H.A. wore Black face is tantamount to calling H.A. a racist.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 9 Oct. 2024
Trusting your people to make decisions, lead, and learn from their challenges is tantamount to earning a leadership gold medal.
—Dan Pontefract, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
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The potential for outsized influence by a foreign power in a country’s internal affairs is analogous to the American discussion over fracking.Daniel Markind, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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The artist agents of recent years look to play an analogous role on behalf of artists themselves.Natasha Degen, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
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The decrease is attributed to a decline in comparable store sales and strategic pricing investments.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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The box-office success of Tim Burton’s Batman got CBS to open its checkbook to give those fans a comparable network show, and The Flash spared no expense.Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
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And because the two isolated genes are found in many other plant species, similar genetic editing may help improve other agricultural staples in the future.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
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Eventually our list reaches more than a dozen more victims, nearly all with similar experiences, most of them bursting with a desire to talk.Suzanne Seggerman, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2024
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Net interest income on a fully taxable equivalent basis was $16,138,000, an increase from $15,224,000 in the previous year.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024
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This doesn’t mean that the two parties’ political strengths and weaknesses in this election are perfectly equivalent and offsetting in the battleground state of Wisconsin.Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Tantamount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tantamount. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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