parallel to

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With rip currents, which are "normally quite a narrow channel of water moving out to sea", Ayers said "competent" swimmers should swim parallel to the shore to get out of the flow.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

Instead of placing the anode and cathode parallel to each other, the new design positions them perpendicular.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026

Residents resorted to burying the bodies just outside school grounds; more than 20 graves run parallel to the school’s outer wall, each marked with a broken cinder block.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

Every president since has challenged Iran over concerns about Gulf shipping, but President Ronald Reagan faced the closest parallel to today’s Hormuz shutdown during what was called the tanker war in the late 1980s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

Would there be any way I could travel parallel to the fire and work my way back there, to a source of water at least?

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins