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parallel

[par-uh-lel, -luhl] / ˈpær əˌlɛl, -ləl /






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"In this case, 'cold' means that the atoms propagate at similar speeds, almost parallel to one another."

From Science Daily Sep. 18, 2026

As AI labs pushed the envelope with ever more powerful frontier models, Microsoft was developing a parallel concept of the “frontier company,” built on principles that reflected AI.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

Harris and Newsom came up in politics in the same era and have never before run in an election against each other, operating their political careers largely in parallel rather than in competition.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

Others have also complained that the reorganisation could stymie or delay parallel efforts to merge councils into regional authorities led by mayors, which Burnham has cited as a key part of his economic plans.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

He pushed in a good safe thirty feet, until the saplings rose up taller than he was, until his anxiety let him breathe right again, before turning to parallel the road.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

Fruit fly models, however, have repeatedly helped scientists uncover fundamental biological processes that were later found to have important parallels in humans.

From Science Daily Sep. 18, 2026

There are eerie parallels between this year’s campaign and the contest 20 years ago, when Democrats took control of both houses of Congress while gaining six governorships.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

It immediately draw parallels with the Covid pandemic with its aerial shots of abandoned cities and Hig's constant search for resources like food and medicine.

From BBC Aug. 27, 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

In my experience, people who have been incarcerated rarely have difficulty identifying the parallels between these systems of social control.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

“We have a standing but toxic house that we haven’t been able to return to, so this has kind of paralleled our displacement,” Hudson said of the campus closure.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 27, 2026

Sammy drove along the road that paralleled the beach for more than a mile.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

The education of Robert Maynard Hutchins parallelled and sped a slower re-education of the U.S. itself.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

This combination of the poetical with the legal mind was parallelled by other combinations in such masters of "Responses" as the Sheshet and Duran families in Algiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

From Chapters on Jewish Literature by Israel Abrahams

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

This revolution in the tempo of production and capital accumulation was parallelled by a like revolution in transportation and communication by land, water, and eventually by air and in space.

From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Scott Nearing

"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

Still used today by West Africans, the instrument's main parts are a gourd, and a stick attachment and a bridge for its three to four strings, paralleling a modern banjo.

From Salon Feb. 15, 2024

"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 Haarlem the bus took the south road, paralleling the sea.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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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