The word tantamount has appeared in 74 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Feb. 8 in “Rihanna: Since She’s Been Gone” by Lindsay Zoladz:
That is what happened when Rihanna was absent from the Met Gala for a single year: A monument to missing her was commissioned. Multiply the intensity of that longing by seven to imagine the sort of withdrawal that has been afflicting the music industry for nearly a decade.
… But the bottom line is more serious: Because of the length of Rihanna’s hiatus, the stakes for her return keep growing. For a star with 14 No. 1 tracks on Billboard’s Hot 100 — and 63 songs on the chart to date — a middling return could be tantamount to a flop.
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