parallel to
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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 ● Oct. 1, 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 ● Sep. 26, 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
"We are saying that the mantle flow is not driving the east-west, rift-perpendicular direction of some of the deformations, but that it may be causing the anomalous northward deformation parallel to the rift," Rajaonarison said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
My head is tipped back, parallel to the sky.
From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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