coequal

adjective

co·​equal (ˌ)kō-ˈē-kwəl How to pronounce coequal (audio)
: equal with one another
coequal branches of government
coequal noun
coequality noun
coequally adverb

Examples of coequal in a Sentence

in my mind illegally downloading something from the Internet is coequal to stealing from a store
Recent Examples on the Web Neither does anything in the decision prohibit states or the coequal federal branches from recognizing the same. Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023 There is nothing by Richard Diebenkorn, Ed Ruscha or Wayne Thiebaud, artists associated with California — a coequal locus of creativity to New York and the East Coast — who project a sensibility distinctly different from that cultivated in New York. Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023 The code of conduct’s first good deed is putting the Supreme Court in its proper context, which is atop a judiciary that the Constitution makes a coequal branch of government. The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2023 As the Constitution outlines, the U.S. has three distinct and coequal branches of government: a legislature that passes laws, an executive branch that implements them, and a judiciary that interprets them. David Bernhardt, wsj.com, 9 May 2023 Our system of coequal branches of executive, legislative and judicial government designed to provide checks and balances without which our democracy does not work — was eroding over time, and the Citizens United ruling accelerated the erosion to the point where the system is massively broken. San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2022 Judge Roslynn Mauskopf, head of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, said that the federal judiciary’s policy-making body—called the Judicial Conference of the U.S.—strives to find a balance between coequal branches of government in regular contacts with Congress. Coulter Jones, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2021 The extension was approved on strict party lines as Democrats said that Lamont has been doing a solid job in prudent fashion during an ongoing health crisis, while Republicans said the full legislature has been ignored and disregarded as a coequal branch of government. Christopher Keating, courant.com, 30 Mar. 2021 For much of the American public and for the historical record, the second impeachment of former President Donald J. Trump represented a blistering censure from a coequal branch of government whose members’ lives had been imperiled days earlier by a mob of his supporters attacking the Capitol. New York Times, 27 Jan. 2021

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Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of coequal was in the 14th century

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“Coequal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coequal. Accessed 18 Mar. 2024.

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coequal

adjective
co·​equal (ˈ)kō-ˈē-kwəl How to pronounce coequal (audio)
: equal with one another
coequality noun
coequally adverb
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