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38 examples of Equate in a sentence

And beauty doesn't equate to goodness, and certainly doesn't equate to contentment.
And you'll see that the human, chimp and bonobo all have external testicles, which in our book we equate to a special fridge you have in the garage just for beer.
Which element of leadership does that equate to?
Number six: Don't equate your experience with theirs.
Many of these kids equate spending with credit and debit cards, with Google Wallet and Paypal and Zap.
All of these are what they equate spending to, and by the way, I am not pooh-poohing the technological advancements in payment technology today - far from it.
So our metaphors equate the experience of loving someone to extreme violence or illness.
And they haven't figured out that there might be ways to do that that don't equate to dollars.
I must say I also continued to be puzzled and frustrated by certain foreign film lovers who equate tedium and lack of dramatic involvement with "artistry" and "seriousness".
Too many film fans equate 'EXTREME self-indulgence' to 'film GENIUS!', but I don't buy into that cult of personality.
It's because of movies like this that make people automatically equate independent with garbage.
As a veteran of the original Tolkien craze, forty years ago, I'd hoped for more than the obvious--which doesn't always equate to the true.
Director Nigel Finch seems to make a concerted effort to equate homosexuality with drag behavior, and drag behavior with (ultimately) prostitution.
I'd equate the acting in the film with a middle school performance.
Even after all these years, after all that's happened, these men had no qualms about showing the world their routines, making it obvious that they don't equate their actions directly to the effects it had on their fellow country men and women.
Not to mention, the writer would have been wise to sit up for an all night marathon of CSI to think we would buy that his throwing a watch, wallet and cell phone in a burning car would equate to somebody thinking he was dead.
But of course, my grandmother was right to equate defeat with liberation.
I remember a similar analysis in 2000, when experts tried to equate Putin’s KGB background with US President George H.W. Bush’s years as Director of the CIA.
And yet some in China equate South Korea’s THAAD deployment with North Korea’s weapons programs.
A sustained and marked decline in government debt (relative to GDP) would be welcome news for those of us who equate high indebtedness with the kind of fiscal fragility that reduces the government’s ability to cope with adverse shocks.
It is wrong, and even immoral, to equate democratic and dictatorial practices.
If we want market-determined rewards to equate with “just” rewards, we either have to abolish markets – the socialist solution – or restructure individual preferences.
In his editorial, Kirschner bemoaned the “tendency to equate significance to any form of medical relevance,” noting that it caused research into non-mammalian systems to be treated “as intrinsically less valuable than studies on human cells.”
The allergy to industrial policy is particularly acute among those who equate it with subsidies and tax breaks.
When I suggest that religious extremism is a danger, I do not equate it with religious fundamentalism.
Above all, we must not equate liberal democracy with the status quo, which all but ensures slow, arduous decision-making.
Armstrong is careful not to equate cycling with cancer, but he—and his legions of fans—often cannot help but do so.
Just as in the Soviet era, today’s rulers equate themselves with the state.
For example, a government seeking to attract investment might equate economic interests with residents’ needs, and thus lower environmental standards or tax burdens for businesses.
The Flip Side of Euro-Atlantic IntegrationMADRID – Many people equate the European Union with Europe, overlooking a few nuances along the way.