Example Sentences

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Traders who bet on stock-price declines worry that prosecutors are equating their tactics with market manipulation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

It sounds like the Dodgers are equating the fourth game of the World Series to a spring training tussle, but guess what?

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2024

Many men here are equating women revealing cases of sexual harassment to the Salem witch trials.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2018

Some commentators even are equating State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh with John Yoo, the former deputy at OLC in the Bush administration who is credited with OLC's most infamous legal advice.

From Slate • Jul. 5, 2011