parallel to
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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
He said the tunnels "go in parallel to one another under the houses of the Brackla Hillside, the housing estate".
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
IBM is embracing so-called nanostacks to push logic scaling beyond traditional nanosheets—by building upward, rather than parallel, to allow more transistors in a given footprint.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
The Iran war could be a good parallel to that.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2026
We had to haul the sledge up and over each knife-edged or fantastically corniced top, then slide her down, and up over the next one: for they never seemed to run parallel to our course.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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