parallel
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The Great Redwood Trail would follow the railroad tracks that parallel Loleta’s small Main Street, passing between a public park and a string of local shops, a post office, and a church.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
In a Monday note, Barclays analyst Ajay Rajadhyaksha drew a direct parallel to the March 2023 regional-banking panic, when the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank triggered fears of an all-out recession.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
No writer is more attuned to the parallel reality of childhood than Mr. Barba.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Using scanning tunneling microscopy, a technique capable of imaging surfaces at the atomic level, the researchers confirmed that the steps ran parallel to one another and directly observed vortices positioned along them.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
After several hours they found Highway 60 and walked along parallel streets within hearing distance of it.
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
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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
“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
The parallels don't end there, as Kennedy, similar to the characters in Stations, also emigrated to England in the 1980s.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 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
Nazism and Lysenkoism were based on dramatically opposed conceptions of heredity—but the parallels between the two movements are striking.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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This bittersweet ending is paralleled alongside the story of the patient and Katharine.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
The writers have paralleled Homelander’s “slow descent into madness” with Butcher’s escalating anti-Supe crusade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 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
Sammy drove along the road that paralleled the beach for more than a mile.
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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Circumstances suddenly combined to strangle the last flickering breath of patience in Will, and the slender barriers were swept away in such a storm as even Phoebe’s wide experience of him had never parallelled.
From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts
The main stem of the flowing Potomac is parallelled on the Maryland shore by the C. & O. Canal in Federal ownership, a unique resource.
From The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior by United States. Dept. of the Interior.
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
Victor's action is parallelled by that of Stephen.
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan
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
"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
"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
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
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 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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