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At last week's PMQs, Andy Burnham seemed to accept a parallel with Northern Ireland that if, and when, support for constitutional change reaches a certain level, a referendum in Scotland could be considered.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

The band’s frontman, Cameron Winter, has a parallel career as a solo artist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

They carried out four parallel studies, each involving between 20,000 and 22,000 people who had started treatment with either a GLP-1 medication or a different type of diabetes drug known as a sulfonylurea.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

Are we creating a parallel system of cancer prevention for people who can afford to buy more information?

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

I watched him pull out of the parallel spot all right.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

“I would’ve thought it has many of the attributes of copper,” Lawcock put to the BHP executives, drawing parallels between uranium and the industrial metal that is central to the miner’s growth plans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

"That strengthening parallels global warming, so it appears to be related to the warming of the planet caused by human production of fossil fuels," said Cole.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

It immediately draw parallels with the Covid pandemic with its aerial shots of abandoned cities and Hig's constant search for resources like food and medicine.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

There’s a glorious power scream at the end that parallels similar unrestrained, slightly unhinged sounds from the guitars.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

Dorcas moves into the hall that parallels the living and dining room.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

This bittersweet ending is paralleled alongside the story of the patient and Katharine.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

Of all his familiar discoveries and inventions, his “Autobiography” may well be the most original, and what he made of it paralleled the invention of America itself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

He added their resurgence had been paralleled by revivals in woodlarks and Dartford warblers, "which are also showing promising increases in numbers".

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 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 ● 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

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

Circumstances suddenly combined to strangle the last flickering breath of patience in Will, and the slender barriers were swept away in such a storm as even Phoebe’s wide experience of him had never parallelled.

From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

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

The control, direction and administration of the nucleus is parallelled by the control, direction and administration of the total complex—the empire and/or the civilization.

From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Scott Nearing

"Conversely, tourism can involve negative experiences that potentially lead to health problems, paralleling the process of promoting entropy increase. A prominent example is the public health crisis of COVID-19."

From Science Daily ● May 4, 2026

Still used today by West Africans, the instrument's main parts are a gourd, and a stick attachment and a bridge for its three to four strings, paralleling a modern banjo.

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2024

"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 ● Nov. 20, 2023

But Lachman realized that the grain also brought “tension to the surface of the image,” paralleling the repressive qualities of the characters in both “Mildred Pierce” and “Carol.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2023

Outside Haarlem the bus took the south road, paralleling the sea.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

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