parallel
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She highlighted that this was happening in parallel with "more water-related disasters".
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
The East-West system consists of two parallel pipelines that use separate pumping infrastructure, meaning one line could potentially resume operations after safety checks even while repairs continue on the other.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
They carried out four parallel studies, each involving between 20,000 and 22,000 people who had started treatment with either a GLP-1 medication or a different type of diabetes drug known as a sulfonylurea.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
The Guardian splashes on the same story, reporting that the Electoral Commission has also said it is "considering all relevant information and regulatory steps" in parallel with the police inquiry.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
As the adults drank coffee and laughed in the kitchen, a parallel scene would unfold outside as Craig and I joined whatever pack of kids came with those adults.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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It immediately draw parallels with the Covid pandemic with its aerial shots of abandoned cities and Hig's constant search for resources like food and medicine.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Considering the tribulations “Coyote vs. Acme” has overcome to finally reach theaters, it’s impossible not to see the parallels between what’s on screen and what transpired between the filmmakers and Warner Bros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Investors are questioning a $4.1 billion takeover of Brighthouse Financial because of some parallels to Walter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
There’s a glorious power scream at the end that parallels similar unrestrained, slightly unhinged sounds from the guitars.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
Linton goes further in drawing parallels among himself and Terryl and Reggie.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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This bittersweet ending is paralleled alongside the story of the patient and Katharine.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
Of all his familiar discoveries and inventions, his “Autobiography” may well be the most original, and what he made of it paralleled the invention of America itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
The currency’s move overnight was paralleled by weakness in U.S. equity futures, suggesting investors’ willingness to take risks remains tethered to cryptocurrency prices heading into the final month of the year.
From Barron's ● Dec. 1, 2025
These developments in urbanism and architecture were paralleled in art and literature.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
Table 7.1 also shows that the Fertile Crescent’s early domestication of flax for fiber was paralleled elsewhere.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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The education of Robert Maynard Hutchins parallelled and sped a slower re-education of the U.S. itself.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The closing lines declare, as far as the poet could declare them, these subjective experiences of his which, in a manner rarely parallelled, coloured and formed his thought on the highest things.
From Alfred Tennyson by Andrew Lang
This revolution in the tempo of production and capital accumulation was parallelled by a like revolution in transportation and communication by land, water, and eventually by air and in space.
From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Scott Nearing
On every Earth-type planet that had ever been discovered, if there were intelligent life it had developed according to water-oxygen evolution; and the culture invariably parallelled homo sapiens.
From The Unprotected Species by Melvin Sturgis
This combination of the poetical with the legal mind was parallelled by other combinations in such masters of "Responses" as the Sheshet and Duran families in Algiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
From Chapters on Jewish Literature by Israel Abrahams
Still, paralleling the two races is a bit like comparing apples to oranges.
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2025
"I have never in my experience heard a victim's voice telling you what is happening, what is going on in their life that's paralleling what you are obtaining and looking at evidentially," she said.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2023
And in a group of atheists and agnostics, Spirituality of Science predicted measures of well-being and meaning in life, paralleling the positive effects of religion that is frequently observed in religious people.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2023
But Lachman realized that the grain also brought “tension to the surface of the image,” paralleling the repressive qualities of the characters in both “Mildred Pierce” and “Carol.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2023
Outside Haarlem the bus took the south road, paralleling the sea.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Once he thought he saw a group of gorilla creatures parallelling their course back amongst the forest growth, but if Naida observed the animals, she paid no attention.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 by Various
Now his spin brought him around to face it, and he saw it was parallelling his course.
From Badge of Infamy by Lester Del Rey
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