parallel
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“Valkyrie” explores as well how all these mortal lives ran in parallel to those of supernatural women—figures that included goddesses, the mysterious Norns and the mythic warriors of the book’s title.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Gazel sees an intriguing parallel between those ancient stories and the underground structures revealed by his team's research.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Its leader Naomi Long said it was important to have those conversations in parallel, ahead of the next assembly election in May 2027.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
El-Sayed, for example, used to shy away from the parallel.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
You’re supposed to do it by looking behind you, but I only knew how to parallel park using that camera!
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
As Greengrass lays out the bare facts of this situation with a cinematic style that’s more news documentary than stuffy period piece, the parallels to our own current situation are laid bare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
He drew parallels with the horrors of the Holocaust, noting that images of Nazi concentration camps only became public after the atrocities.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
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
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
The Iron Worm squeaks, groans, and clanks—black tankers, rust-colored boxcars, and gray hoppers winding north on a single track that parallels the Pacific coast.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
Daisy Chain Fields is an ambitious escalation of Rodrigo’s activism in this sphere, which has paralleled her chart-topping success after debuting as a teenager with her LP “Sour” in 2021.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
This bittersweet ending is paralleled alongside the story of the patient and Katharine.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
The rise in stocks and gold has paralleled the expansion of the Fed’s balance sheet, which, in colloquial terms, is how the central bank prints money.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
The story is also paralleled metafictionally by “Cheating,” whose success is attributed to its unabashed amorality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
To forget it he began to run, almost colliding with a group of glassmakers as he turned into the main thoroughfare that paralleled the Nile.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
The education of Robert Maynard Hutchins parallelled and sped a slower re-education of the U.S. itself.
From Time Magazine Archive
Victor's action is parallelled by that of Stephen.
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan
Circumstances suddenly combined to strangle the last flickering breath of patience in Will, and the slender barriers were swept away in such a storm as even Phoebe’s wide experience of him had never parallelled.
From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts
They have been parallelled by social factors as men took advantage of natural opportunities to concentrate, feed and house ever larger human aggregates.
From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Scott Nearing
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
Still, paralleling the two races is a bit like comparing apples to oranges.
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2025
The reconfigured road will have a bicycle lane paralleling the vehicle lane in each direction, with a turning lane in the center.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
"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
They had barely been in the saddle for an hour that morning when Kaede caught sight of the wolves running through the trees about fifty feet away, roughly paralleling the path.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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
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
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