parallel

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In this heart-sore and compassionate investigation of unresolved pain, director Marialuisa Ernst makes a parallel between their plight and how her uncle’s disappearance during Argentina’s dictatorship affected her family.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

"Compared to the conventional approach of connecting multiple devices in parallel, this approach allowed us to significantly boost the detection sensitivity," adds Michailow.

From Science Daily • May 31, 2026

Berger told Belgian TV that the minibus driver had been driving on a street parallel the railway and then turned left onto the level crossing while the barrier was already down.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike star in a Netflix comedy about a corporate chauvinist who finds himself in a parallel universe—one in which the women are in charge.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

“Well, I’ve had a lot of time to think about them. And dolphins too. And photography and poetry and archeology and parallel dimensions and all sorts of stuff.”

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake