parallel of

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The stagflation parallel of the 1970s isn’t as far-fetched as it was two years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

Yet just as today’s boom isn’t a near parallel of the dot-com frenzy, investors don’t necessarily need to worry that new SPVs mean we’re in for a 2008 redux.

From Barron's • Nov. 4, 2025

Fletcher has a parallel of sorts in “Judas and the Black Messiah.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2021

“However, when we consider the nature of the suffering endured by the Dalits, it is the African-American parallel of enslavement, apartheid and forced assimilation that comes to mind.”

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2020

Georgia O’Keeffe called some of her works “equivalents” because their forms were abstracted in a way that gave the emotional parallel of the source experience.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker