parallel
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The birds also demonstrate a process known as parallel evolution.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
In a recent strategy note, Almeida flagged a parallel between the AI build-out cycle and the 2008 global financial crisis.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
That oil is then pumped about 200 miles across Egypt through the Sumed pipeline, which runs parallel to Suez, to the Mediterranean.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Think of it more as an inversion, with a bottom-up view of its heroine Emma Harte’s life viewed through parallel timelines.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
I tucked the laces inside and lined them up perfectly parallel at the foot of my bed.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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There are lots of parallels between these two stories: family members getting separated from loved ones, then turning to the courts, specifically to habeas corpus petitions, to claim that the separation is unlawful.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
“There are some parallels here that I think we need to think about because you always want the caboose going fast, slower than the front of the engine, and that’s not what’s happening,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
U.S. fans immediately pointed to the parallels with a similar incident earlier in the tournament involving Lionel Messi against Algeria.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
There are parallels here to the late 1990s, when tech innovation and investment resulted in productivity increases routinely north of 2.5%.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
The public discourse regarding “missing black fathers” closely parallels the debate about the lack of eligible black men for marriage.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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This bittersweet ending is paralleled alongside the story of the patient and Katharine.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
The rise in stocks and gold has paralleled the expansion of the Fed’s balance sheet, which, in colloquial terms, is how the central bank prints money.
From Barron's ● May 15, 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
Ben and Mary Anne began to walk slowly to the northern end of the runway beside the wire fence that paralleled the strip.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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The education of Robert Maynard Hutchins parallelled and sped a slower re-education of the U.S. itself.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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 Abrahams, Israel
The High Altar, which is almost in the middle of the Dome, is of a Magnificence not to be parallelled.
Victor's action is parallelled by that of Stephen.
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil
This combination of the poetical with the legal mind was parallelled by other combinations in such masters of "Responses" as the Sheshet and Duran families in Algiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
From Chapters on Jewish Literature by Abrahams, Israel
"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 the window I see three sets of tracks paralleling the one we are on, brown and silver, and beyond them broad flat fields of furrowed soil.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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Now his spin brought him around to face it, and he saw it was parallelling his course.
From Badge of Infamy by Del Rey, Lester
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
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