parallel
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Residents resorted to burying the bodies just outside school grounds; more than 20 graves run parallel to the school’s outer wall, each marked with a broken cinder block.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026
"The mistake was not globalization. The mistake was in not preparing for the consequences of globalization," he said, drawing a parallel with the deindustrialization that followed the offshoring wave of the 2000s.
From Barron's • Apr. 12, 2026
Given the economic downturn the area suffered when the mines closed, it's easy to draw a parallel with clubs across the Channel which are also based in former industrial heartlands.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
The frequently drawn parallel is to North Korea’s conventional artillery massed in range of greater Seoul’s 26 million people.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
And he presents it in perspective, with two parallel lines converging towards a vanishing point.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing parallel
Human Geography - Middle School
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Human Geography - High School
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