parallel
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That oil is then pumped about 200 miles across Egypt through the Sumed pipeline, which runs parallel to Suez, to the Mediterranean.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 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
The honeysuckle in the upper left-hand corner, for example, echoes the contour of the adolescent’s back, while the two straws are virtually parallel to each other.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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Eschewing grander historical parallels, Vaez calls the current situation a "plastic moment", pregnant with possibility as old adversaries contemplate a different set of relationships.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
U.S. fans immediately pointed to the parallels with a similar incident earlier in the tournament involving Lionel Messi against Algeria.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
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
Commentators draw parallels with other intractable conflicts, and count the taxpayer money they say has spiraled down the drain.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026
Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Annunciation of 1344, for example, uses a tiled floor and converging parallels to create a sense of depth of field.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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
These developments in urbanism and architecture were paralleled in art and literature.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
It is paralleled by an above-ground sewage line rigged with flexible pipes designed to move along with the land — but ground movement has left the road marred by cracks, ripples and steep dips.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2024
A road paralleled the fence, and the shrimp harvester was able to move much faster.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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The education of Robert Maynard Hutchins parallelled and sped a slower re-education of the U.S. itself.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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
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
"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
The reconfigured road will have a bicycle lane paralleling the vehicle lane in each direction, with a turning lane in the center.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
"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
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
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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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