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parallel

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






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No writer is more attuned to the parallel reality of childhood than Mr. Barba.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

It also uses SpaceX's parallel Starlink civilian satellite system, but not for offensive operations.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

"It seemed to be much more an inquiry that was operating in parallel rather than in collaboration."

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Studies of the region have identified long, roughly parallel geological features extending from north to south.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

I agree to check the parks where he and his friends like to hang out, and the bike trail that runs parallel to the freeway.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

“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

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

Listed below are several of the most obvious similarities between Jim Crow and mass incarceration, followed by a discussion of a few parallels that have not been discussed so far.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

The story is also paralleled metafictionally by “Cheating,” whose success is attributed to its unabashed amorality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 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

“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 ● Jan. 27, 2026

My experiences with New Guineans are paralleled by those of ethnobiologists studying traditional peoples elsewhere.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Victor's action is parallelled by that of Stephen.

From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan

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

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

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

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

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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