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parallel

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






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The mid-2000s are the most useful parallel to consider.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

In a Monday note, Barclays analyst Ajay Rajadhyaksha drew a direct parallel to the March 2023 regional-banking panic, when the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank triggered fears of an all-out recession.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Silicon Valley was once seen as a breeding ground for progressive-minded entrepreneurs, their politics running in parallel with their innovative solutions.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

The author’s latest speculative dystopian fiction features parallel universes that explore alternate realities — and doppelgangers that stumble between the two.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

He saw marriage as the loving alignment of two people who could lead parallel lives but without forgoing any independent dreams or ambitions.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

If the parallels are clear enough, the world is a very different place in this century and the outcome does not have to be the same.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

Kim locates an inner confidence in early home videos of Lisa competing in talent shows, drawing parallels between that precocious seven-year-old and the young woman who is gradually reclaiming her agency.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

The deal is immediately accretive and the basin has significant technical and operational parallels to the U.K.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Wigglesworth: There are parallels between the 19th-century railway boom and the AI boom today.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

But he is careful not to draw parallels.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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 story is also paralleled metafictionally by “Cheating,” whose success is attributed to its unabashed amorality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 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 ● Dec. 1, 2025

The rest of the squad, except me and Peewee, were on the long side of the “L” which paralleled the road.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

Vigfusson's work was parallelled by the far more thorough researches of the eminent Norwegian philologist, Sophus Bugge.

From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Laurence Marcellus Larson

Meanwhile Tropical Storm Rachel is paralleling Mexico's Pacific coast and is forecast to strengthen into a major hurricane by Thursday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

"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

The best beginner trail in the network is the Cold Creek Trail, which starts at the Nordic center and heads east paralleling Keechelus Lake.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2022

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

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

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


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