parallel
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The result was the formation of "cloud streets," long, parallel bands of clouds aligned with the wind.
From Science Daily • May 6, 2026
“It is like he’s several different people, or has been,” said journalist and author Catherine Nixon Cooke, whose book “Dodgers to Damascus: David Lesch’s Journey from Baseball to the Middle East” traces those parallel lives.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026
It’s an inexact parallel, if it’s any kind of parallel at all.
From Salon • May 3, 2026
With many entities involved in the Iran oil trade already blacklisted by the U.S.—including ships, ports and refineries—a parallel system has developed with little overlap with China’s sanctions-compliant oil market.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026
If you compare the notes of a person on the ground and a person on a train moving parallel to the raven, they would disagree about the speed of the raven and the tree.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing parallel
Human Geography - Middle School
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Human Geography - High School
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