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For more than three decades, Liz Phair and Sleater-Kinney existed in parallel without ever quite meeting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

"We regularly see people on the beach attempting the crossing. It feels like living in two parallel worlds that have nothing to do with each other; it's really strange."

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Instead of keeping his hands at shoulder-level with his bat parallel to the ground, he holds his hands at his chest and his bat pointing upward.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

"We are saying that the mantle flow is not driving the east-west, rift-perpendicular direction of some of the deformations, but that it may be causing the anomalous northward deformation parallel to the rift," Rajaonarison said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

A mile down this road the mule veered off toward the river, shuffling down a heavily tracked dirt road that ran parallel to a large, plowed-under tomato field.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Investors are questioning a $4.1 billion takeover of Brighthouse Financial because of some parallels to Walter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Considering the tribulations “Coyote vs. Acme” has overcome to finally reach theaters, it’s impossible not to see the parallels between what’s on screen and what transpired between the filmmakers and Warner Bros.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

There’s a glorious power scream at the end that parallels similar unrestrained, slightly unhinged sounds from the guitars.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

Experts see parallels with a three-decade-old settlement between dozens of US states and tobacco companies.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Since many of my students are fifteen, and Zlata is fifteen and Anne Frank was fifteen when she died, I think the parallels between age, alienation, and teenage angst will really hit home for them.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

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

Table 7.1 also shows that the Fertile Crescent’s early domestication of flax for fiber was paralleled 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

The control, direction and administration of the nucleus is parallelled by the control, direction and administration of the total complex—the empire and/or the civilization.

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

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

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

Still, paralleling the two races is a bit like comparing apples to oranges.

From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2025

"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

Coming to the falls, you’ll view three separate cascades, from a bridge or on the trail paralleling the river.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2023

So frequently do these acts recur that when I was halfway through the first draft of Native Son a case paralleling Bigger’s flared forth in the newspapers of Chicago.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

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