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parallel

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






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In parallel, the startup has also started preliminary talks with investment banks for a potential initial public offering in Hong Kong as soon as next year, the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

Japan occupied all of Korea before its 1945 surrender in the Second World War, after which the peninsula was divided into separate states along the 38th parallel.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

“I just thought that episode was really funny and special and weird. Coop and Mel are both spiraling in their own way. They’re kind of parallel spiraling.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

"What we haven't done is created a parallel narrative for boys and young men surrounding what a happy, healthy, successful future looks like for them," he said.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

I slid over this wall and began running along it, parallel to the road.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

In his tribute to the actor, Coscarelli said the Long Beach native “channeled himself into that role” and described the parallels between Bannister’s character and his offscreen personality.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

Leaving aside the tastelessness of comparing her death certificate to a lottery ticket, I doubt very much that it has any real-world parallels.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

If true, it has parallels with the Garrincha situation, with presidential intervention involved to make sure the Brazil winger was not suspended.

From BBC Jul. 5, 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

The parallels to the Civil War were striking.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

This bittersweet ending is paralleled alongside the story of the patient and Katharine.

From Salon Jul. 28, 2026

Of all his familiar discoveries and inventions, his “Autobiography” may well be the most original, and what he made of it paralleled the invention of America itself.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 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

Cabral focused on passages in “Points of Origin” that paralleled the Ole’s fire scene.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 29, 2025

A long covered breezeway paralleled the main structure and connected the two wings.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Scott Nearing

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

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

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

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

Outside Haarlem the bus took the south road, paralleling the sea.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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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