How to Use equivalence in a Sentence

equivalence

noun

• It was sowed by those who draw equivalence between neo-Nazis and those who protest them.
  — Grace Segers, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2019
• The tide could quickly turn if the EU signals it’s going to get tougher on equivalence.
  — Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2019
• The argument of whether a team is the ‘most deserving OR best’ is a false equivalence.
  — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2023
• In any case, his rhetoric has led to a distinctly alt-right false equivalence.
  — Kat Stoeffel, The Cut, 24 Aug. 2017
• Growing sick and tired — as my mom and grandmom would say — of the bulls--- and giving false equivalence to the bigotry, lies and hatred.
  — Washington Post, 15 June 2021
• Leave aside for a moment her grotesque false equivalence.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• And yet this claim of moral equivalence is no longer the smear of a foreign cynic but the view of the president of the United States himself.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 24 June 2020
• In that sense, there is no practical equivalence as a threat.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Sep. 2017
• There is no equivalence, and to pretend that there is does both sides a disservice.
  — Victoria Coates, National Review, 14 May 2021
• In this way, the researchers expect to test whether the strong equivalence principle holds.
  — Gabriel Popkin, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2015
• Unlike the celestial owl, Hunter’s crack years do have a moral to them: the innate equivalence of all people’s worth.
  — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 9 Apr. 2021
• With those words, the president of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it.
  — NBC News, 6 July 2019
• The logic for that is not much greater than linking coffee and tea prices based on their caffeine equivalence.
  — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• In order to bring Trump down to the level of Clinton and Biden, the press is busy pushing these and other false narratives of equivalence.
  — For Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 14 Jan. 2024
• This false equivalence between Nazis and Israel is a trope on the left, where anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism elide.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2018
• The business of cloning is an outgrowth of the discovery of genomic equivalence, the fact that the DNA sequence is identical in all the cell types of our body.
  — Alexandra Horowitz, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
• As if there were an equivalence between these two objects.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
• Forget, for the moment, the merits of the Democrats’ steel-trap case against Trump and the false equivalence of the Republicans’ vicious attacks on the Biden family.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 25 Jan. 2020
• In test after test over many centuries, the equivalence principle has held strong.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2022
• How much of an equivalence is there between the old Soviet Union and modern China?
  — WSJ, 15 Dec. 2021
• The left ought to be concerned about this trend, but some have gone so far as to apply a false equivalence to conspiracy-mongering.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 23 May 2017
• All those years at the Auditorium, its home since 1998, the Joffrey was stuck in the arts equivalence of a turn-key operation.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• There can, of course, be no moral equivalence between Stevens and a slavery apologist like Wigfall.
  — Andrew Ferguson, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2020
• But that's a false equivalence, convenient for cable talk shows.
  — Jack Hitt, Wired, 13 Aug. 2020
• In making this argument, the writer assumes a false equivalence between the two camps.
  — Star Tribune, 3 Sep. 2020
• Hasan sounded as if Maher was the moral equivalence of Lester Maddox for retailing ...
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 8 May 2023
• Democrats dismissed the attacks on Mr. Schiff as a false-equivalence effort to distract from the president’s own conduct.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2019
• Most people are aware that as a religious matter for Jews Hanukkah bears no equivalence to what Christmas does for some Christians.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2012
• This is what the Trump campaign does pretty effectively, which is try to make this false equivalence happen.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 16 June 2024
• Its reserves were virtually nonexistent, down to the equivalence of a mere two days of the state’s operating budget.
  — Louis Freedberg, The Mercury News, 30 May 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024