adjective
The situation in Northern Ireland could be compared with a parallel situation in Lebanon
noun
Campbell found many parallels among the legendary heroes of other cultures
One can draw parallels between the human arm, the fish's fin, and the bird's wing. By way of parallel, consider the flood in the Bible and that in the Gilgamesh epic
verb
In many respects, your attitudes towards life parallel mine when I was your age. A decrease in the rate of inflation supposedly parallels a rise in interest rates
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