as in identical
resembling another in every respect
in my mind illegally downloading something from the Internet is coequal to stealing from a store
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as in equivalent
one that is equal to another in status, achievement, or value
viewing himself as the coequal of the Caesars of ancient Rome, Napoléon surrounded himself with the emblems of classical antiquity
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Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
There is nothing by Richard Diebenkorn, Ed Ruscha or Wayne Thiebaud, artists associated with California — a coequal locus of creativity to New York and the East Coast — who project a sensibility distinctly different from that cultivated in New York.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
The code of conduct’s first good deed is putting the Supreme Court in its proper context, which is atop a judiciary that the Constitution makes a coequal branch of government.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2023
As the Constitution outlines, the U.S. has three distinct and coequal branches of government: a legislature that passes laws, an executive branch that implements them, and a judiciary that interprets them.
—David Bernhardt, wsj.com, 9 May 2023
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Neither does anything in the decision prohibit states or the coequal federal branches from recognizing the same.
—Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
There is nothing by Richard Diebenkorn, Ed Ruscha or Wayne Thiebaud, artists associated with California — a coequal locus of creativity to New York and the East Coast — who project a sensibility distinctly different from that cultivated in New York.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
The code of conduct’s first good deed is putting the Supreme Court in its proper context, which is atop a judiciary that the Constitution makes a coequal branch of government.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2023
As the Constitution outlines, the U.S. has three distinct and coequal branches of government: a legislature that passes laws, an executive branch that implements them, and a judiciary that interprets them.
—David Bernhardt, wsj.com, 9 May 2023
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“Coequal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coequal. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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