Examples of 'tantamount' in a sentence
Meaning of "tantamount"
tantamount (adjective): Equivalent to something in value, significance, effect, or meaning; effectively equal to something in all relevant respects
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- Equivalent in meaning or effect; amounting to the same thing in practical terms, even if being technically distinct.
- To amount to as much; to be equivalent.
- Something which has the same value or amount (as something else). (attributive use passing into adjective, below)
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It would be tantamount to disarming those already disarmed.
What he did to the poor woman is tantamount to rape.
This task is tantamount to squaring the circle.
Encroaching on their territory would be tantamount to genocide.
This ruling is tantamount to a ban on retail activity.
Your words on that tape were tantamount.
Which for you is tantamount to eternal fealty.
But to disobey a direct order would be tantamount.
For them resettlement is tantamount to another displacement.
Is not tantamount to arguing against rationalism generally.
Otherwise that would be tantamount to a fund transfer.
This is tantamount to penalizing the unfortunate victims.
From an extradition order tantamount to a death sentence.
This is tantamount to the suppression of all freedom.
Doing otherwise would have been tantamount to unconditional surrender.
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It seems tantamount to being a vegetarian who works at a slaughterhouse.
This was not correct and tantamount to protectionism.
This is tantamount to intervening in our internal affairs.
The tactics used are tantamount to terrorism.
Which is tantamount to the system of equations below.
To move her now would be tantamount to murder.
To do so is tantamount to tacit approval of the current practices.
Discharging her would be tantamount to elder abuse.
Which is tantamount to taking away the denominator.
His training methods were tantamount to child abuse.
That is tantamount to letting a part of himself die.
She refused his offer as tantamount to giving in.
It was tantamount to saying that he had sold the land.
For them forgetting would be tantamount to betrayal.
This step is tantamount to a first bleaching step.
I concluded that surgery would be tantamount to mutilation.
This tweet is tantamount to admitting obstruction of justice.
The founders viewed stasis as tantamount to suicide.
To deny it is tantamount to denying a primary purpose in life.
Opposition to the forthcoming war was tantamount to treason.
Her conduct was tantamount to aiding the guerillas.
Government contracts may sometimes be tantamount to aid.
Both your deeds tantamount to royal treachery.
Statistical disparity is not necessarily tantamount to racism.
Illegal fishing is tantamount to theft of communal resources.
Second place or half measures are tantamount to nothing.
This project was tantamount to the planning of genocide.
To cancel the summit now would be tantamount to war.
Failing to act is tantamount to condoning the situation.
Trying to imitate something like that is tantamount to suicide.
It was an event tantamount to the recent royal wedding.
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to defeat.
His philosophy is tantamount to innovation and meticulousness.
Aiding and abetting a known terrorist is tantamount to treason.
The delay is tantamount to a denial of justice.
