parallel
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Villarreal picked him up, and there the two strands of his life - football and study - ran in parallel.
From BBC β Oct. 3, 2026
Wage-earners and self-employed people pay the Medicare tax, and a parallel 3.8% tax applies to investment income in high-income households.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 1, 2026
“I feel like there’s a direct parallel to all of this in the private markets,” said the investor best known for calling the U.S. housing bust in 2007.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 1, 2026
On a curved surface, however, lines that begin parallel can eventually converge.
From Science Daily β Sep. 28, 2026
Two parallel police agencies, he said to himself; ours and this one.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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“East of Eden” parallels the Biblical story of Cain and Abel first through Adam and Charles Trask, then again through Adam’s twin sons Aron and Caleb.
From Salon β Oct. 3, 2026
Wigglesworth: There are parallels between the 19th-century railway boom and the AI boom today.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 29, 2026
The parallels don't end there, as Kennedy, similar to the characters in Stations, also emigrated to England in the 1980s.
From BBC β Sep. 24, 2026
Fruit fly models, however, have repeatedly helped scientists uncover fundamental biological processes that were later found to have important parallels in humans.
From Science Daily β Sep. 18, 2026
Dorcas moves into the hall that parallels the living and dining room.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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This bittersweet ending is paralleled alongside the story of the patient and Katharine.
From Salon β 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 β 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 β Mar. 16, 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 β Jan. 21, 2026
To forget it he began to run, almost colliding with a group of glassmakers as he turned into the main thoroughfare that paralleled the Nile.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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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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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 Scott Nearing
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 Laurence Marcellus Larson
The High Altar, which is almost in the middle of the Dome, is of a Magnificence not to be parallelled.
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.
Meanwhile Tropical Storm Rachel is paralleling Mexico's Pacific coast and is forecast to strengthen into a major hurricane by Thursday.
From Barron's β Sep. 29, 2026
In humans, mutations in the FBXW7 gene in breast cancer are associated with worse prognosis - paralleling the change seen in cats.
From Science Daily β Sep. 27, 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 β 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 β Nov. 20, 2023
Outside the window I see three sets of tracks paralleling the one we are on, brown and silver, and beyond them broad flat fields of furrowed soil.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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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 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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