How to Use parity in a Sentence

parity

noun
  • There is much parity in the league.
    Mark Lasota, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • This is a 30-team league built for parity.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2025
  • That depth and parity are stronger than two of the biggest brands in the sport.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 July 2023
  • There have been spurts of parity before.
    Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • This is all part of the league’s effort to ensure more parity.
    Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 May 2023
  • So instead of taking all of them mod two, that’s one parity check.
    Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Don’t be surprised if that parity shows up again in this year’s Div.
    Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
  • There is endless parity across most fields, and this year’s Div.
    Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 24 Feb. 2026
  • That's not supposed to happen in a league built around parity.
    Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026
  • Then, there is plenty of parity.
    Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The same one that almost went below parity with the dollar at this time last year!
    Kelly Evans, CNBC, 29 Jan. 2026
  • But in the Mountain West, parity is not a good thing.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
  • But there is still a long way to go before women’s soccer can reach full parity with the men’s game.
    Yasmeen Serhan, Time, 17 July 2023
  • Its parity is thrilling and exhausting, and a blast to follow.
    Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 16 Feb. 2026
  • But the goal of full 50/50 male/female parity is still a long way off.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Mar. 2024
  • With the parity around the sport, though, those tweaks can have an outsized impact on the outcome of the game.
    Jim Root, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Other engine builders caught up, and some parity has been restored.
    Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The draft is designed to increase parity by sending the best new players to the worst teams in the league.
    Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • To him, that level of parity makes staying true to their process even more important.
    Peter Rauterkus, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • But this year is extra tight, and a few factors are contributing to this mid-off parity.
    Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2025
  • The British pound floated during the war, from its prewar gold parity.
    Nathan Lewis, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • What thinking buys us is not output parity with machines, but agency.
    Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Soon, the antagonists seized on force parity as a way to reduce the risk of conflict.
    William J. Broad, New York Times, 26 June 2023
  • That’s the beauty of the NFL – the parity.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Much of that parity extends into Div.
    Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 29 May 2026
  • Of course, that would create issues with the league stakeholders who prize parity, or at least the idea of it, above all else.
    Eric Koreen, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The pandemic pushed back progress towards pay parity, which was already stalling.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Something that may well never be repeated in a league that strives to create parity.
    Kansas City Star, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Kerr is still a competitor at heart, and sees the fun in certain aspects of the West’s parity.
    C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Perhaps the best news this year is that once again there's feature parity between the Pro models.
    Medea Giordano, WIRED, 19 July 2023

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