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parallel

[par-uh-lel, -luhl] / ˈpær əˌlɛl, -ləl /






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The new revenue sharing deal agreed with the White House is "in parallel" to that, he said.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

“You hit that first ramp at the foot of the climb,” said former pro Pierre Rolland, “and it feels like you’re entering a parallel universe.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

The problem with the 1999 parallel is that right now there’s no similar divergence.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

Newsom drew a parallel to the plague of retail theft that captivated the state not long ago, and which the state has successfully combated.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

They were the ones that had created the thirty-eighth parallel and separated families.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

Investors should be cautious and consider a wide range of factors before drawing direct parallels between the two time periods.

From MarketWatch Jun. 29, 2026

For Ramos, a lab technician trainee in Connecticut, the cinematic parallels hit close to home.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 28, 2026

Commentators draw parallels with other intractable conflicts, and count the taxpayer money they say has spiraled down the drain.

From Slate Jun. 27, 2026

There are parallels here to the late 1990s, when tech innovation and investment resulted in productivity increases routinely north of 2.5%.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

I was beginning to see parallels: The Africans wanted to be free from British rule, just as colonial Americans did two hundred years earlier.

From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda

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

He added their resurgence had been paralleled by revivals in woodlarks and Dartford warblers, "which are also showing promising increases in numbers".

From BBC Mar. 16, 2026

Mahisha, now unconcerned with Babu, paralleled the move in his cage in a fluid, effortless motion.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

The education of Robert Maynard Hutchins parallelled and sped a slower re-education of the U.S. itself.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Abrahams, Israel

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 Abrahams, Israel

The main stem of the flowing Potomac is parallelled on the Maryland shore by the C. & O. Canal in Federal ownership, a unique resource.

From The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior by United States. Dept. of the Interior.

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 Nearing, Scott

"Conversely, tourism can involve negative experiences that potentially lead to health problems, paralleling the process of promoting entropy increase. A prominent example is the public health crisis of COVID-19."

From Science Daily May 4, 2026

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

Coming to the falls, you’ll view three separate cascades, from a bridge or on the trail paralleling the river.

From Seattle Times Jun. 28, 2023

So frequently do these acts recur that when I was halfway through the first draft of Native Son a case paralleling Bigger’s flared forth in the newspapers of Chicago.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

Now his spin brought him around to face it, and he saw it was parallelling his course.

From Badge of Infamy by Del Rey, Lester

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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