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The word 'equalizer' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation or a device that works to make things equal or more balanced. For example, "The team used an equalizer in the fourth quarter to erase the opposing team's lead and tie the game."
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equalizer
noun
One who makes equal; a balancer.
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FaceReader, being a piece of software and therefore immune to gender bias, proved to be the great equalizer: It detected RBF in male and female faces in equal measure.
Blas Perez scored an obvious goal that was clearly over the line but we were robbed, and even though we got the equalizer deep into injury time it was a game that left a bad taste, even if to all intents and purposes it was a game we didn't expect much from beforehand, with George John out and Ferreira only available to come off the bench.
Against San Jose the heartbreak of that stoppage time equalizer was a bummer, but a larger concern were the injury issues and concerns that came out of that match.
Iraizoz came forward in the final minute and thought he had grabbed an unlikely equalizer when he headed into the net, but the referee disallowed the goal because the assistant referee ruled a Bilbao player offside at the free kick.
Ten minutes later, a ball sent across the six by Peterson nearly produced the equalizer, but Dwyer's legs gave out.
The ring gear of the rear axle surrounds the housing of a differential gear train that serves as an equalizer in dividing the torque between the two driving wheels while permitting one to turn faster than the other when rounding corners.
At the same time, though, a new equalizer has been developed: the antiship guided missile.
Although American Michelle Kwan moved up to the senior level at age 12, she did not win her first world championship until 1996, when she was 16. "Older" skaters such as Kwan and Maria Butyrskaya (who at age 27 won a gold medal at the 1999 World Championships in Helsinki) now compete against younger skaters because the great equalizer, compulsory figures, is gone.
Dressed in a pleated pink shirt, short-sleeved grey jumper dotted with pearls and a pair of navy Chanel heels, she looks entirely at ease at the height of fashion (as pictures of her, stunning in a Dior gown, at the Toronto premiere of The Equalizer confirm).
She totters onto the screen in a micro-skirt, heels and black wig, playing a Russian teen prostitute in The Equalizer.
Never mind that Moretz has already worked with such luminaries as Martin Scorsese (on Hugo) and Tim Burton (Dark Shadows), she's currently high on The Equalizer.
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