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parallel

[par-uh-lel, -luhl] / ˈpær əˌlɛl, -ləl /






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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

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

Wage-earners and self-employed people pay the Medicare tax, and a parallel 3.8% tax applies to investment income in high-income households.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

“It’s okay!” she said with a flippant wave of her hand, smiling that perfectly parallel smile.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

“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

Wigglesworth: There are parallels between the 19th-century railway boom and the AI boom today.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Harwood noticed parallels between her own life and that of Miles.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Fruit fly models, however, have repeatedly helped scientists uncover fundamental biological processes that were later found to have important parallels in humans.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

Some critics have even drawn parallels between McCandless and the Arctic’s most infamous tragic figure, Sir John Franklin, a nineteenth-century British naval officer whose smugness and hauteur contributed to some 140 deaths, including his own.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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 writers have paralleled Homelander’s “slow descent into madness” with Butcher’s escalating anti-Supe crusade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 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

A road paralleled the fence, and the shrimp harvester was able to move much faster.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

The education of Robert Maynard Hutchins parallelled and sped a slower re-education of the U.S. itself.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are only thirty fables in the Talmud and the Midrash, and of these several cannot be parallelled in other literatures.

From Chapters on Jewish Literature by Israel Abrahams

This revolution in the tempo of production and capital accumulation was parallelled by a like revolution in transportation and communication by land, water, and eventually by air and in space.

From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Scott Nearing

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

Vigfusson's work was parallelled by the far more thorough researches of the eminent Norwegian philologist, Sophus Bugge.

From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Laurence Marcellus Larson

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

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

And in a group of atheists and agnostics, Spirituality of Science predicted measures of well-being and meaning in life, paralleling the positive effects of religion that is frequently observed in religious people.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2023

They had barely been in the saddle for an hour that morning when Kaede caught sight of the wolves running through the trees about fifty feet away, roughly paralleling the path.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

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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