parallel
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“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 flat plane, parallel lines never meet.
From Science Daily β Sep. 28, 2026
Agathe Chateau Frilloux sprinted down a long road parallel to the Champs Elysee, her daughter and son running close behind, only just making it to their designated gate before the set cut-off time.
From Barron's β Sep. 26, 2026
In the parallel opening and closing sections and the fishing scenes, the overlapping voices evoke the world of water, a place of grace and redemption.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 23, 2026
Masterji Thakur's words buzzed through her: “There’s no parallel between the Aces and Conjurors.”
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
But the parallels with last year are unavoidable.
From BBC β Sep. 26, 2026
He said in an episode of The David Lin Report podcast that he is seeing parallels between the current landscape and the months before Black Monday, or the stock-market crash of 1987.
From MarketWatch 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
There are of course unavoidable parallels between the stories of Kiritsis and Mangione, including the fact that both men were celebrated as folk heroes by some people who identified with their broader resentments.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 18, 2026
Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Annunciation of 1344, for example, uses a tiled floor and converging parallels to create a sense of depth of field.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
This bittersweet ending is paralleled alongside the story of the patient and Katharine.
From Salon β Jul. 28, 2026
The story is also paralleled metafictionally by “Cheating,” whose success is attributed to its unabashed amorality.
From The Wall Street Journal β May 8, 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 β Dec. 1, 2025
Cabral focused on passages in “Points of Origin” that paralleled the Ole’s fire scene.
From Los Angeles Times β Jan. 29, 2025
My experiences with New Guineans are paralleled by those of ethnobiologists studying traditional peoples elsewhere.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The education of Robert Maynard Hutchins parallelled and sped a slower re-education of the U.S. itself.
From Time Magazine Archive
The control, direction and administration of the nucleus is parallelled by the control, direction and administration of the total complex—the empire and/or the civilization.
From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Scott Nearing
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.
Victor's action is parallelled by that of Stephen.
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan
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
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
"Conversely, tourism can involve negative experiences that potentially lead to health problems, paralleling the process of promoting entropy increase. A prominent example is the public health crisis of COVID-19."
From Science Daily β May 4, 2026
"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
Highways paralleling the river as it nears its endpoint at the Gulf pass farmland and fishing camps, shrimp boats, offshore oil rig supply vessels and industrial storage yards.
From Seattle Times β Aug. 9, 2023
They had barely been in the saddle for an hour that morning when Kaede caught sight of the wolves running through the trees about fifty feet away, roughly paralleling the path.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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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