1. it was as good as gold
2. a wish that was equivalent to a command
3. his statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt
1. "Wouldn’t this be tantamount to giving a butterfly a skeleton?"
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Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 #1-2
2. "I nodded. "Yup. What I did was tantamount to treason in their eyes." "I don't know what 'tantamount' means, but it sounds pretty serious."
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Richelle Mead, Bloodlines
3. "To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away."
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Yann Martel, Life of Pi
4. "A failure to pray was tantamount to a failure to breathe."
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Thom S. Rainer, Autopsy of a Deceased Church: 12 Ways to Keep Yours Alive
5. "I should learn to be more craftily evasive, I thought: a bad evasion is tantamount to telling the truth."
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William Boyd, Brazzaville Beach: A Novel
6. "It is impossible to live in autarchy, to make the testimony of faith, pray and fast and go to pilgrimage only, far from men and worrying about no one except oneself. It is worth repeating that to be with God is tantamount to being with men; to carry faith is tantamount to carrying the responsibility of a continuous social commitment. The teaching that we should extract from zakat is explicit: to posses is tantamount to having to share."
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Tariq Ramadan, Islam
7. "Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate . To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away"
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Quote by Yann Martel
8. "Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away."
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Yann Martel, Life of Pi
9. "Myron shook his head. All sports have their own lexicons, but speaking golfese was tantamount to mastering Swahili. It was like rich people’s rap. But"
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Harlan Coben, Back Spin
10. "The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding."
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Quote by Rudolf Arnheim