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“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

Think of it more as an inversion, with a bottom-up view of its heroine Emma Harte’s life viewed through parallel timelines.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026

He swivelled his huge right ear until it was parallel with the ground, then he placed Sophie gently inside it.

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl

And you do not have to look far to see some pretty striking parallels between In re Turner and today.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

“There are some parallels here that I think we need to think about because you always want the caboose going fast, slower than the front of the engine, and that’s not what’s happening,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

Commentators are already drawing parallels between Burnham and another mayor turned prime minister: Boris Johnson.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

Other observers have drawn parallels between Nadiem's case and two other political allies of former President Joko Widodo - ex-trade minister Tom Lembong and party official Hasto Kristiyanto.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

Because of the many parallels between the background and personality of Perry Smith and the subjects of his study, Dr. Satten feels secure in assigning him to a position among their ranks.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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 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

We see that identity struggle play out as Luis and his brother, Frank, take different approaches in their lives, and it’s later paralleled in the story of “La Bamba.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2026

These developments in urbanism and architecture were paralleled in art and literature.

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025

C. P. Ellis’ ascent to power in the Ku Klux Klan paralleled Ann Atwater’s own steady climb through the ranks of community activists.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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

From Time Magazine Archive

This revolution in the tempo of production and capital accumulation was parallelled by a like revolution in transportation and communication by land, water, and eventually by air and in space.

From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Nearing, Scott

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 Larson, Laurence Marcellus

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 High Altar, which is almost in the middle of the Dome, is of a Magnificence not to be parallelled.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

"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

They had barely been in the saddle for an hour that morning when Kaede caught sight of the wolves running through the trees about fifty feet away, roughly paralleling the path.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

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