Thesaurus results for EQUIVALENTS

equivalents

noun

plural of equivalent

as in counterparts

one that is equal to another in status, achievement, or value that huge mansion at the end of the street is the equivalent of five ordinary houses

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Recent Examples of equivalents OpenRouter's Justin Summerville told the network that open Chinese models can run 60% to 90% cheaper than the leading Anthropic and OpenAI equivalents. — Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026 His buyback calculation is based on a regulatory filing Berkshire made in July tied to Chairman Warren Buffett’s charitable stock donation, which disclosed his economic ownership of the company’s Class A share equivalents. — Yun Li, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2026 The exhibitor generated $190 million in free cash flow and ended the quarter with $778 million of cash and cash equivalents. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 20 July 2026 Google describes the resulting deployment as about 50 server-equivalents worth of compute at a fraction of the usual cost. — New Atlas, 2 July 2026 Neither Borgen nor Clifton qualifies as blue-line equivalents. — Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 2 July 2026 Among them are selfie sticks (or equivalents), oversized hats, clothing bearing political statements and large flags. — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026 The Bay Area was handed, unquestionably, the worst slate of group-stage games FIFA’s bureaucrats could manifest — five equivalents of a Tuesday night MACtion football game in a November blizzard. — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 26 June 2026 His poetry is notoriously difficult to translate because of its highly ornate, extended metaphors, which have few easy equivalents in English. — Krupa Shandilya, The Conversation, 25 June 2026

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And while the hotel was certainly a different kind of spectacle—tamer and more refined than its Cafe counterparts—there was always another corner left to discover, or a new extension to look forward to on the next visit.

— Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Aug. 2026
There are lots of brands that have worked to give us beautiful soft mattes that glide onto lids and don’t feel patchy or heavy like their previous counterparts.

— Elle Turner, Glamour, 28 Aug. 2026

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And because nobody washed the dishes before tossing them into the feasting pit, King and his colleagues (in a 2017 study) could analyze the microscopic residue of ancient drinks that had soaked into the ceramic.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026
Whether El Niño will continue to strengthen is something Cole and her colleagues’ records can’t answer, but scientists are using climate models to try to puzzle that out.

— Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2026

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