parallel
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The parallel need to work together to benefit the team's overall prospects can be an uncomfortable ask in such circumstances.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
When the defenders return, lives lived in parallel collide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
The study had several strengths, including its carefully controlled feeding approach, two parallel comparison groups, and emphasis on whole fruits rather than isolated nutrients or supplements.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
We had been discussing blended families, so we take in the obvious parallel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
After Japan's defeat in 1945, control of the Korean Peninsula split down the middle, at the 38th parallel, a line that cut the nation neatly in half.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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The parallels are interesting for those who know Lumentum’s history.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
The actor worked with Shawn Ryan and Eileen Myers to adapt the true story of a radio news broadcaster and an aggrieved kidnapper with modern-day parallels to figures like Luigi Mangione.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Researchers Erik Stänicke, Bendik Hovet, and Line Indrevoll Stänicke, together with colleagues, argue that this modern understanding of brain function has important parallels with ideas that psychoanalysts have been developing for more than a century.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
A boom on that scale would eclipse historical parallels such as the construction of the railroads, the electricity grid or the internet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The meridians are perpendicular to the parallels on the surface of the globe; that is, they meet at right angles, or ninety degrees.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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Daisy Chain Fields is an ambitious escalation of Rodrigo’s activism in this sphere, which has paralleled her chart-topping success after debuting as a teenager with her LP “Sour” in 2021.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
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
To forget it he began to run, almost colliding with a group of glassmakers as he turned into the main thoroughfare that paralleled the Nile.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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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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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
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
The High Altar, which is almost in the middle of the Dome, is of a Magnificence not to be parallelled.
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
Standing before L.A. mayoral candidate Nithya Raman was the coalition that made her unlikely rise happen, paralleling the one that made the Democratic Party’s takeover of the House and Senate possible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
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, paralleling the two races is a bit like comparing apples to oranges.
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2025
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
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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 Lester Del Rey
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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