parallel
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Wall squats involve putting your back against a wall and lowering down into a sitting position using your hips until the thighs are parallel to the ground.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
The frequently drawn parallel is to North Korea’s conventional artillery massed in range of greater Seoul’s 26 million people.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Different species sometimes arrive at the same biological solution on their own, a phenomenon known as parallel evolution.
From Science Daily • Apr. 9, 2026
Of course, no influencer plot would be complete without the threat of online cancellation — and just when things can’t get any worse, Natalie enters the parallel universe of the past.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
But her mother worried that they were too close to the thirty-eighth parallel that separated North and South Korea.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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Human Geography - Middle School
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Human Geography - High School
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