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parallel

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






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The savings will be achieved by “unifying our enterprise tech stack, streaming ecosystem and broadcast architecture, merging parallel technology functions, leveraging AI coding tools and integrating platforms and systems.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

Several fears are moving higher in parallel, including: outliving savings, inflation and taxes, family caregiving, and market volatility.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

Wedding represented Canada in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and finished 24th in the parallel giant slalom category, records show.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

The parallel need to work together to benefit the team's overall prospects can be an uncomfortable ask in such circumstances.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Before long she’s swinging parallel to the ground.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

The parallels are interesting for those who know Lumentum’s history.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 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 ● 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 ● 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 ● Oct. 16, 2026

But he is careful not to draw parallels.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Israel Abrahams

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

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 ● 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 ● Sep. 29, 2026

"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

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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