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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

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

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

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

Since many of my students are fifteen, and Zlata is fifteen and Anne Frank was fifteen when she died, I think the parallels between age, alienation, and teenage angst will really hit home for them.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

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

“No, that’s not true,” Mr. Dacus disagreed, turning down River Street and walking down the sidewalk beneath the massive wind-sculpted water oaks that paralleled the river.

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

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

Victor's action is parallelled by that of Stephen.

From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil

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.

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

"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 used today by West Africans, the instrument's main parts are a gourd, and a stick attachment and a bridge for its three to four strings, paralleling a modern banjo.

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2024

"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

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

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