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It's cheesy and ludicrous and, therefore, delightful; it's the reading equivalent of hate-watching.

Desert Golfing is the gaming equivalent of putting TV on in the background.

Right now it looks like the diplomatic equivalent of one hand clapping.

It was the equivalent of becoming a black Klansman or Jewish Nazi.

The two scientific stories resort to the equivalent of Mathematics for Dummies andPhysics for Dummies.

Its use by so distinguished a person as Raleigh was equivalent to its general introduction.

But in such expressions as "I am rather tired," equivalent to "I am a little tired," the explanation is not so obvious.

Therefore, a very pale yellow may be its usual test for efficiency, and the equivalent will be maintained.

Pigeons' dung, according to Boussingault, contains 8·3 per cent of nitrogen, equivalent to 10·0 of ammonia.

And a promise equivalent to this he made when he engaged to establish his called and chosen, as a holy people to himself.

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On this page you'll find 107 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to equivalent, such as: commensurate, comparable, corresponding, equal, identical, and proportionate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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