parallel
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When the defenders return, lives lived in parallel collide.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 3, 2026
The study had several strengths, including its carefully controlled feeding approach, two parallel comparison groups, and emphasis on whole fruits rather than isolated nutrients or supplements.
From Science Daily β Nov. 3, 2026
We had been discussing blended families, so we take in the obvious parallel.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 29, 2026
Devine also tells the documentary series about being questioned by the IRA as they conducted a secret investigation parallel to the police inquiry.
From BBC β Oct. 24, 2026
The canal ran parallel on the other side, with a bridge crossing over it at the far end of the street.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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The parallels between the fall from power of the two men are extraordinary.
From BBC β Nov. 1, 2026
The actor worked with Shawn Ryan and Eileen Myers to adapt the true story of a radio news broadcaster and an aggrieved kidnapper with modern-day parallels to figures like Luigi Mangione.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 23, 2026
Researchers Erik Stänicke, Bendik Hovet, and Line Indrevoll Stänicke, together with colleagues, argue that this modern understanding of brain function has important parallels with ideas that psychoanalysts have been developing for more than a century.
From Science Daily β Oct. 19, 2026
A boom on that scale would eclipse historical parallels such as the construction of the railroads, the electricity grid or the internet.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 16, 2026
Nazism and Lysenkoism were based on dramatically opposed conceptions of heredity—but the parallels between the two movements are striking.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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This bittersweet ending is paralleled alongside the story of the patient and Katharine.
From Salon β Jul. 28, 2026
The story is also paralleled metafictionally by “Cheating,” whose success is attributed to its unabashed amorality.
From The Wall Street Journal β May 8, 2026
He added their resurgence had been paralleled by revivals in woodlarks and Dartford warblers, "which are also showing promising increases in numbers".
From BBC β Mar. 16, 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 β Dec. 1, 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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There are only thirty fables in the Talmud and the Midrash, and of these several cannot be parallelled in other literatures.
From Chapters on Jewish Literature by Israel Abrahams
Victor's action is parallelled by that of Stephen.
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan
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
The control, direction and administration of the nucleus is parallelled by the control, direction and administration of the total complex—the empire and/or the civilization.
From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Scott Nearing
Standing before L.A. mayoral candidate Nithya Raman was the coalition that made her unlikely rise happen, paralleling the one that made the Democratic Party’s takeover of the House and Senate possible.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 5, 2026
Meanwhile Tropical Storm Rachel is paralleling Mexico's Pacific coast and is forecast to strengthen into a major hurricane by Thursday.
From Barron's β Sep. 29, 2026
In humans, mutations in the FBXW7 gene in breast cancer are associated with worse prognosis - paralleling the change seen in cats.
From Science Daily β Sep. 27, 2026
Still, paralleling the two races is a bit like comparing apples to oranges.
From Salon β Jul. 16, 2025
Outside the window I see three sets of tracks paralleling the one we are on, brown and silver, and beyond them broad flat fields of furrowed soil.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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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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