Equating

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  • noun. the act of regarding as equal.
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  • verb. Present participle of equate.
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  • noun. the act of regarding as equal
  • Word Usage
    "As O'Reilly rhetorically argued after the contretemps on The View last week, "Were we attacked by Japanese 'extremists' [at Pearl Harbor]?", again equating an attack by branch of al Qaeda with an attack by a sovereign government and country."
    Hypernym
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    equation  
    verb-stem
    equate