parallel of

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The stagflation parallel of the 1970s isn’t as far-fetched as it was two years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

It’s so well-written, with the monster and Vecna as the parallel of his own identity; to harness these powers, he has to accept his own inner struggles.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2026

Yet just as today’s boom isn’t a near parallel of the dot-com frenzy, investors don’t necessarily need to worry that new SPVs mean we’re in for a 2008 redux.

From Barron's • Nov. 4, 2025

In July, Nicola Beer, a vice president of the European Parliament, visited the island, in a recent parallel of Ms. Pelosi’s trip that caused less controversy.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2022

Georgia O’Keeffe called some of her works “equivalents” because their forms were abstracted in a way that gave the emotional parallel of the source experience.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker