Example sentences for: equivalence

How can you use “equivalence” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When federal budget deficits and debt mounted in the 1980s, private saving declined-the opposite of what the Ricardian equivalence hypothesis would suggest.

  • Skeptics question this assumed equivalence, noting that traits men find attractive in women these days--thinness, for example--are often unhealthy.

  • In the precincts of the American left that still dream of Fidel and Che in the Sierra Maestra, Rieff's book was greeted with murmurings of disapproval--the kind of murmurings that had greeted Sontag's famous Town Hall declaration of the moral equivalence of communism and fascism some years before.

  • To each intensificand is appended a translation equivalence and an alphabetic list of permissible intensifiers.

  • L 1 in the literal sense; without metaphor or exaggeration 2 with exact equivalence; verbatim < follow the instructions ˜ > 3 — used to intensify a metaphorical or hyperbolic expression < she was ˜ — tearing her hair out >; disapproved of by some speakers


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