parallel
Example Sentences
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The chips perform calculations by breaking large problems into thousands of simpler tasks that are processed simultaneously, through a method called parallel processing.
From Barron's
He finished 24th in the parallel giant slalom category.
“It’s virtually parallel with weight gain,” says Sam West, a physiologist and postdoctoral researcher at University of Oxford in England who was lead author of the BMJ review.
“We have a standing but toxic house that we haven’t been able to return to, so this has kind of paralleled our displacement,” Hudson said of the campus closure.
From Los Angeles Times
That book sent me down a parallel path, reading about people who — often as part of their own digital Sabbaths — have folded a standing dinner invite into their week.
From Salon
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