parallel
Example Sentences
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A parallel danger lurks in the Himalayas and other high mountain areas like the Andes, where melting glaciers have created thousands of new lakes.
But we no longer live exclusively in the age of the physical battlefield; we fight a parallel war in cyberspace, where U.S. dominance is challenged.
The parallels with the 1970s are ominous: Inflation surges and then retreats but gets stuck a bit too high.
Two parallel lines cut the space between her eyebrows.
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Had he died in the flames, and was he now trapped in some sort of parallel universe?
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