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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of parallel.

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Examples

  • Another favorite phrase is Montaigne's, "'Tis the best viaticum for this human journey," a phrase paralleled by the Rabbinic use of the Biblical

    The Book of Delight and Other Papers Israel Abrahams 1891

  • M. O'BRIEN: And the reason I play that is, of course, you know, in October, you said that thing that kind of paralleled that about whether Satan was involved or God was mad at New Orleans.

    CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2006 2006

  • My systems have always been what you would call massively paralleled, meaning to a great degree all of the machines are doing the same thing but on different data.

    The Net's Master Data-miner 2004

  • "Funny, the crazy thing is that ever since I met Angie my life has kind of paralleled the damned book that started it all in the first place.

    Clean Kill Alexander, Al 2000

  • And then I thought what most paralleled my experience was that Charlie Brown cartoon where he goes to the spelling bee and all his friends are rooting for him and he gets everything right until he has to spell "beagle," the kind of dog Snoopy is, and he blows the most obvious word. ...

    Work of Art’s The Sucklord on How the Kids Challenge Ruined Him 2011

  • That has paralleled the rise in obesity, leading many scientists to place part of the blame for increased waistlines on soda itself.

    Gordon Campbell: The Obesity Epidemic: One Way to Encourage Healthier Eating Gordon Campbell 2010

  • Attempts to win over allies among the Cherokees and Catawbas paralleled the fitful construction at Fort Loudoun.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • But we did suggest that in nature, there were "Laws of System Dynamics," which paralleled thermodynamics, and helped explain how a largely resource-spent place like the rainforest - which should be dead - is instead the locus of more life and species creativity than any other ecosystem on earth.

    Bill Shireman: Science, Religion, and Sustainability: Lessons from My Grandfather Bill Shireman 2010

  • Hiding behind barrels and boxes in the narrow alleys that paralleled the main road, he made it to the river within ten minutes.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • Nordau believed that intellectual degeneration paralleled or surpassed physical degeneration—and that it carried its own stigmata.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

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