Thesaurus results for PARALLELED

paralleled

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past tense of parallel

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to be the exact counterpart of developments in the television show paralleled those in the lead actor's real life

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Recent Examples of paralleled So the conversation paralleled what was going on with the character and with myself, which was cool. — Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026 The incident closely paralleled the sequence of events that in July resulted in another group of OpenAI’s agents launching cyberattacks against the company Hugging Face. — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026 The data paralleled numbers in California, where during this year’s June primary about 93,500 voters had their ballots rejected because they were postmarked or arrived too late to be counted. — ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026 Originally published in 1963, the book paralleled Plath’s own experiences with depression; the writer tragically died by suicide just a month after the novel’s first UK publication. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2026 Showrunner Bekah Brunstetter tells PEOPLE there were no chemistry reads during the casting process, which meant that the actresses’ bonding in real-time paralleled that of their characters. — Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 14 July 2026 Fascinatingly, the journey of the eager-to-please author often paralleled that of the novel’s protagonist, who fixates relentlessly on how others perceive her. — Literary Hub, 13 July 2026 The more compact forms now seen in Ukraine are the result of an evolution that paralleled that of the first-person view (FPV) attack drones. — Tereza Pultarova, IEEE Spectrum, 10 July 2026 Israel’s traditional response to the events of 1948—that the displacement of Palestinians was a tragic consequence of a war Arab states started, and that it was paralleled by the expulsion of roughly 850,000 Jews from Arab countries—is true, but inadequate. — Michael W. Sonnenfeldt, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026

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Kawasaki The new Versys is actually much more closely matched by the 2026 Yamaha Tracer 9, whose 890cc mill makes 117 hp and starts at $12,599.

— Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 14 Oct. 2026
That visibility also opens up savings, since inbound shipments can be matched with outbound ones into round trips rather than empty backhauls.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026

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