parallel
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Cruise’s character is an intentional parallel to his own cinema-championing schtick, an actor who believes every scene he’s in should carry some semblance of the truth.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
In Philly, parallel parking ranks as top entertainment.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
Then we started talking about the parallel of programming and overcoming programming, and what makes you human, what doesn’t, that parallel came first.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
Villarreal picked him up, and there the two strands of his life - football and study - ran in parallel.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
The redwood had no branches for about twenty feet above the roots, so he was able to pull the alder parallel to the trunk.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
The deal is immediately accretive and the basin has significant technical and operational parallels to the U.K.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
“East of Eden” parallels the Biblical story of Cain and Abel first through Adam and Charles Trask, then again through Adam’s twin sons Aron and Caleb.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
But the parallels with last year are unavoidable.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
He said in an episode of The David Lin Report podcast that he is seeing parallels between the current landscape and the months before Black Monday, or the stock-market crash of 1987.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
The Iron Worm squeaks, groans, and clanks—black tankers, rust-colored boxcars, and gray hoppers winding north on a single track that parallels the Pacific coast.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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
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
These developments in urbanism and architecture were paralleled in art and literature.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
Reggie's own adoption of technology very much paralleled what was happening around the country, a phenomenon documented in a series of pioneering studies initiated by the Kaiser Family Foundation in 1999.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
The education of Robert Maynard Hutchins parallelled and sped a slower re-education of the U.S. itself.
From Time Magazine Archive
The closing lines declare, as far as the poet could declare them, these subjective experiences of his which, in a manner rarely parallelled, coloured and formed his thought on the highest things.
From Alfred Tennyson by Andrew Lang
The main stem of the flowing Potomac is parallelled on the Maryland shore by the C. & O. Canal in Federal ownership, a unique resource.
From The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior by United States. Dept. of the Interior.
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
Meanwhile Tropical Storm Rachel is paralleling Mexico's Pacific coast and is forecast to strengthen into a major hurricane by Thursday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
In humans, mutations in the FBXW7 gene in breast cancer are associated with worse prognosis - paralleling the change seen in cats.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 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
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
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