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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

Before long she’s swinging parallel to the ground.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

There are lots of parallels between these two stories: family members getting separated from loved ones, then turning to the courts, specifically to habeas corpus petitions, to claim that the separation is unlawful.

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

I kill the headlights and drive along the road that parallels the river.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

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

He added their resurgence had been paralleled by revivals in woodlarks and Dartford warblers, "which are also showing promising increases in numbers".

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026

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

Circumstances suddenly combined to strangle the last flickering breath of patience in Will, and the slender barriers were swept away in such a storm as even Phoebe’s wide experience of him had never parallelled.

From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden

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

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

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 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

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