as in equivalence
the state or fact of being exactly the same in number, amount, status, or quality
rules requiring that there be parity in what schools spend on men's and women's sports
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Recent Examples of parity
While cultural riches and stylish destinations are part of the allure, favorable currency exchange rates are also driving interest in the year ahead: the euro is near parity with the dollar for the first time since October 2023.
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Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 28 Jan. 2025
Under Biden, the U.S. government had intensified a policy that began during Trump’s first term: using the power of export controls to limit the number of advanced chips that China could obtain to impede its attempts to reach parity with the U.S. on AI.
—Billy Perrigo, TIME, 13 Jan. 2025
The city proposed market rate adjustments and COLA to maintain parity with other cities.
—Julia Fomby, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
The drop, combined with an 18% increase in drinking rates among Americans over age 55 during the early 2000s, has brought the two groups’ rates of alcohol consumption nearly to parity.
—Jacob Turcotte, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Feb. 2025
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Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 28 Jan. 2025
Under Biden, the U.S. government had intensified a policy that began during Trump’s first term: using the power of export controls to limit the number of advanced chips that China could obtain to impede its attempts to reach parity with the U.S. on AI.
—Billy Perrigo, TIME, 13 Jan. 2025
The city proposed market rate adjustments and COLA to maintain parity with other cities.
—Julia Fomby, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
The drop, combined with an 18% increase in drinking rates among Americans over age 55 during the early 2000s, has brought the two groups’ rates of alcohol consumption nearly to parity.
—Jacob Turcotte, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parity
Noun
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Combating antisemitism should not come at the cost of distorting reality or creating false equivalences.—
Yinam Cohen,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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Her characters, buffeted by the era’s fluctuating currencies, inherited this crisis of equivalence.—
Laurence Scott,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Litchfield’s Adult Basic Education program offers inmates at the Meeker County Detention Center an opportunity to use that time wisely – either brushing up on basic skills or working toward a high school equivalency diploma.—
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Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Correlating the removal of a platform’s fact-checking with benefits to creators such as lower likelihood of a shadow ban—as Lessin does—could very well be a false equivalency, given the algorithms determining content distribution have never been transparent in the first place.—
Cherie Brooke Luo,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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He was created at the height of the Cold War, long before gender equality was a mantra.—
Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
26 Feb. 2025
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Inspired by Henry Hampton's 1987 documentary series, this new installment examines the fight for racial equality from 1977 to 2015.—
Maxwell Millington,
Axios,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Parity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parity. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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