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Assigning the Roth account to a child in a high tax bracket and the traditional account to one in a lower bracket can help equalize after-tax values.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

To equalize your grandchildren’s inheritance later, you can adjust the distribution in your will or trust, reducing their shares by the amount you have already given each of them.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 31, 2025

He said his group has advocated for Newsom to declare a statewide emergency, which would help equalize the response statewide and allow for mutual aid agreements between wealthier and poorer areas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025

“In order to equalize its share versus the USD, the gold price would need to rise to USD 5,790/oz assuming no change in the quantity of gold holdings,” Hsueh wrote.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025

Sensing the drop in pressure, it constantly flooded itself with air from my nitrogen tank to equalize.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

Isotonic cells have an equal concentration of solutes inside and outside the cell; this equalizes the osmotic pressure on either side of the cell membrane which is a semi-permeable membrane.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

“This rule, at least to a certain degree, equalizes the workforce that way,’’ says Amanda Sonneborn, an employment lawyer at King & Spalding.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2021

That’s smart, since consumers love both the content, digital content delivery and, eventually — as the water equalizes, as it always does — Hollywood-movie folks will figure out the necessary economic equilibrium.

From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2021

Some philosophers, such as Jeremy Bentham, have suggested that it’s our capacity to suffer that equalizes us.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 6, 2020

“I like the way it equalizes everyone, you know? Most competitions are only for one thing, but in America's Got Talent, you can do anything. Be anything.”

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

It’s a cost gap barely equalized by the current 50% aluminum tariff.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

Argentina went ahead two minutes into extra time on a strike from Lisandro Martinez, but Cape Verde equalized in the 103rd minute with a curving effort from Sidny Lopes Cabral.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

Atlanta's Tyler Allgeier scored on a two-yard run only 2:45 into the game but Buffalo equalized just 4:14 later on Allen's 19-yard touchdown pass to Dawson Knox.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025

Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, director of the Clinical Epidemiology Center at the VA St. Louis Health Care System, and his colleagues expected to find that the two respiratory diseases had finally equalized.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024

For us, such struggles — for sunglasses, long trousers, study privileges, equalized food — were corollaries to the struggle we waged outside prison.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

“A life-insurance policy can be specifically purchased to provide a cash payout to the non-business child, effectively equalizing their inheritance without burdening the business or the child taking it over,” it says.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 6, 2026

Whether or not Altman is a true believer in A.I.’s equalizing powers, he’s talking his book.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2026

Rather, his numerous public appearances in the past few months have been filled with talk about the potential for AI to be more of an equalizing force for technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 18, 2026

It is also, in some ways, an equalizing force.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025

“My thought was that if you know how to keep tissue alive there must be some way of equalizing the reserve supply to the area of the throat and face.”

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot