equivalency
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equivalencies
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Origin of equivalency
From the Medieval Latin word aequivalentia, dating back to 1525–35. See equivalent, -ency
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Many big brands see a false equivalency between DEI issues and target marketing issues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
There’s an equivalency with Platner, and some of it has to do with a populist style of politics.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026
"When I think about the show, if there's one word to describe it, I suppose it would be equitability or equivalency, equivalency between artworks," the Costume Institute's curator Andrew Bolton told AFP.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
I was happy with spousal equivalency, with the idea that every day Carlos and I chose each other without needing the state to ratify it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2025
She made it clear that neither he nor Nicholas was welcome until they got themselves together, got their high school equivalency diplomas, and started taking care of their kids.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
But if “Armageddon Time” seems to hew to a familiar playbook, it also avoids trafficking in the complacency, reassurance and false equivalencies that most Hollywood explorations of race and class are eager to peddle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
Mann and others have criticized such arguments for their false equivalencies: the environmental and health costs of rare earth minerals for certain renewable energy sources are small compared with those of fossil fuels.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 26, 2022
On an Amazon comments section for an apple-flavored horse paste, one commenter spewed false equivalencies about viruses and parasites before writing, “Flavor is bearable but then I am not a horse.”
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2021
The group added: "The United States and Israel are imperfect and, like all democracies, at times deserving of critique, but false equivalencies give cover to terrorist groups."
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2021
This mediation was itself a form of work: questions asked, questions answered, commitments made, equivalencies determined.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
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