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parallel

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






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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

“You do have eyes in the back of your heart. Come on over here, and I’ll show you how your father uses parallel rulers.”

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

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

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

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

For virtually the length of Shenandoah National Park, the AT closely parallels and often crosses Skyline Drive, though most of the time you would scarcely guess it.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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

Cypress trees towered to the left of the car, an ink-black creek paralleled the highway, full of rotten winter vegetation.

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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




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