parallel
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Villarreal picked him up, and there the two strands of his life - football and study - ran in parallel.
From BBC β Oct. 3, 2026
“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
Small triangles would behave almost exactly as Euclid predicted, and short parallel paths would not noticeably converge.
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
They were the ones that had created the thirty-eighth parallel and separated families.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
“East of Eden” parallels the Biblical story of Cain and Abel first through Adam and Charles Trask, then again through Adam’s twin sons Aron and Caleb.
From Salon β Oct. 3, 2026
Wigglesworth: There are parallels between the 19th-century railway boom and the AI boom today.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 29, 2026
Harwood noticed parallels between her own life and that of Miles.
From BBC β Sep. 27, 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
As it turns out, the story has some little-appreciated but striking parallels with the American prehistory that we encountered in the preceding chapter.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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
We see that identity struggle play out as Luis and his brother, Frank, take different approaches in their lives, and it’s later paralleled in the story of “La Bamba.”
From Los Angeles Times β Jan. 21, 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
The rest of the squad, except me and Peewee, were on the long side of the “L” which paralleled the road.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
The education of Robert Maynard Hutchins parallelled and sped a slower re-education of the U.S. itself.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
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
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
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
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
"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
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 β Oct. 5, 2023
The best beginner trail in the network is the Cold Creek Trail, which starts at the Nordic center and heads east paralleling Keechelus Lake.
From Seattle Times β Dec. 1, 2022
Outside Haarlem the bus took the south road, paralleling the sea.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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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