parallel
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The license is for phase 2 of the field and is expected to be delivered in parallel with phase 1.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
That parallel evolution may have been crucial because it could have allowed the two lineages to become less dependent on the chemistry of hydrothermal vents and eventually survive as independent cells.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
Japan occupied all of Korea before its 1945 surrender in the Second World War, after which the peninsula was divided into separate states along the 38th parallel.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Last week, in a social media post, Trump thanked the king for the honour, but there was not a parallel announcement from the Moroccan authorities.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
I tucked the laces inside and lined them up perfectly parallel at the foot of my bed.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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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
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
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
There are parallels here to the late 1990s, when tech innovation and investment resulted in productivity increases routinely north of 2.5%.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
The parallels of Bobby’s life to Van Gogh’s go only so far, however.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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This bittersweet ending is paralleled alongside the story of the patient and Katharine.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 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
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
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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On every Earth-type planet that had ever been discovered, if there were intelligent life it had developed according to water-oxygen evolution; and the culture invariably parallelled homo sapiens.
From The Unprotected Species by Melvin Sturgis
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 Eden Phillpotts
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 Israel Abrahams
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
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
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
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
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
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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 Lester Del Rey
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