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tantamount
[ tan-tuh-mount ]
adjective
- equivalent, as in value, force, effect, or signification:
His angry speech was tantamount to a declaration of war.
tantamount
/ ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt /
adjective
- postpositivefoll byto as good (as); equivalent in effect (to)
his statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt
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Example Sentences
To this aide, these attacks were tantamount to “asking to intervene on the side of ISIS.”
Turing was offered the option of two years in prison or oestrogen injections—tantamount to chemical castration.
He was given the choice of two years in prison or oestrogen injections, tantamount to chemical castration.
Being shamed by her church was tantamount to losing her community and her job.
For them the 18-day search for the Israeli teens and the manhunt for their captors was tantamount to collective punishment.
The alterations were indeed small; but the alteration even of a letter was tantamount to a declaration of independence.
Witness his conception, in The Broken Heart, of a loveless marriage as tantamount to adultery.
To try and compel them to pay was tantamount to placing liberty and even life in jeopardy.
Indeed, to call a work of art purely and simply "scientific," is tantamount to saying that it is dry and uninspired by the muse.
Now this would be tantamount to conceiving the definition of a thing that did not exist, which is impossible.
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