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Are we creating a parallel system of cancer prevention for people who can afford to buy more information?

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

"We regularly see people on the beach attempting the crossing. It feels like living in two parallel worlds that have nothing to do with each other; it's really strange."

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

For more than three decades, Liz Phair and Sleater-Kinney existed in parallel without ever quite meeting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Instead of keeping his hands at shoulder-level with his bat parallel to the ground, he holds his hands at his chest and his bat pointing upward.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

My way ran parallel to a rapid, shallow river—the Battenkill—spanned by covered bridges here and there along its course.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

He drew parallels with the horrors of the Holocaust, noting that images of Nazi concentration camps only became public after the atrocities.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

It immediately draw parallels with the Covid pandemic with its aerial shots of abandoned cities and Hig's constant search for resources like food and medicine.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Investors are questioning a $4.1 billion takeover of Brighthouse Financial because of some parallels to Walter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

There’s a glorious power scream at the end that parallels similar unrestrained, slightly unhinged sounds from the guitars.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

The meridians are perpendicular to the parallels on the surface of the globe; that is, they meet at right angles, or ninety degrees.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

This bittersweet ending is paralleled alongside the story of the patient and Katharine.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 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

The story is also paralleled metafictionally by “Cheating,” whose success is attributed to its unabashed amorality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

These developments in urbanism and architecture were paralleled in art and literature.

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025

Reggie's own adoption of technology very much paralleled what was happening around the country, a phenomenon documented in a series of pioneering studies initiated by the Kaiser Family Foundation in 1999.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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 Eden Phillpotts

They have been parallelled by social factors as men took advantage of natural opportunities to concentrate, feed and house ever larger human aggregates.

From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Scott Nearing

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

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

"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

But Lachman realized that the grain also brought “tension to the surface of the image,” paralleling the repressive qualities of the characters in both “Mildred Pierce” and “Carol.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2023

"A worst-case scenario is that the storm travels right past Tampa paralleling the coast, driving a storm surge of 12 feet or more," Mann said.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2022

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

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