equate - use in sentences

Object

  • religion: Also, it's difficult to equate one religion with another in the way he seems to do.
  • success: Furthermore it would be a myopic distortion to equate success at Tesco as a negative for the retail industry as a whole.
  • value: Many amateur firers equate value with duration and this simply is not the case.
  • term: To equate theosophical terms to my terms: " Ego " ( theosophy ) equals " soul " ( my term ).

Preposition: with

  • quality: It's fine for people who want to become popular, but when did popular equate with quality?
  • value: The types of things that enchant are more a question of signs, which I equate with values.
  • emotion: One area of confusion is that feelings are often loosely equated with emotions.
  • term: These terms are frequently equated with the statistical terms " quantitative " and " qualitative " .

Used with why or when

  • what: With that kind of an introduction I can't quite equate what is playing now.

Modifying Another Word

  • mistakenly: Rogers ' and Maslow's theories of actualisation are often mistakenly equated.
  • broadly: A one-year, full-time further education course broadly equates to 20 SUMs or 800 learning hours.
  • necessarily: More investment doesn't necessarily equate with better health care.
  • approximately: This would approximately equate to one full container of illicit spirits being consumed in the UK each day of the year.
  • automatically: For those people who automatically equate atheist with evil-doer: get an education, will you?

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