"has been equated" is a correct phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which two things are thought to be the same or equal. For example, "The value of hard work has been equated to success."
By contrast in Europe, ever since the French Revolution, religion has been equated with reaction.
The Koran-burning has been equated, in some circles, with the fabled ground zero mosque.
He added, however, that what beauty and personal-care companies are trying to market "is a releaser pheromone that has been equated with being a sexual attractant, and we just don't know enough about them".
But it was the attempt to resurrect the spirit of antique drama in the late Renaissance that created the textural revolution that has been equated with the beginnings of modern music: the monodic style with its polarity of bass and melody lines and emphasis on chords superseded the equal-voiced polyphonic texture of Renaissance music.
One reason may be that habit has been equated with behavioral frequency.
Inclusive design has been equated to universal design in the past.
That means fancier interior and exterior trim and an upgraded level of customer service; what Lincoln has been equating to a concierge service of late.
The guitar-slung Texas troubadour Jimmie Dale Gilmore has been equating wistful Western expanse with the mysteries of existence for three decades.
(Sinagra) JIMMIE DALE GILMORE (Tuesday) The Texas troubadour Jimmie Dale Gilmore has been equating wistful Western expanse with the mysteries of existence for three decades.
Loretta Ross, the founder of Sister Song Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, said the anti-abortion movement has been equating abortion to slavery for decades, but that the comparison is based on faulty logic.
DIF occurs 1) if an item is sensitive to both the primary dimension and a secondary dimension and 2) if the reference and focal groups that have been equated on the primary dimension differ in distribution on a secondary dimension (Rousos and Stout 1996a).
