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- verb UK Simple past tense and past participle of
parallel .
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Examples
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This parallelled his true situation, where he had a normal face until being exposed to poison gas during WWI, which triggered the onset of the head-enlarging syndrome known as acromegaly.
Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.: Intriguing Factoids From the Horror/Sci-Fi/Mystery Genre Ph.D. Dr. Franklin Ruehl 2011
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This parallelled his true situation, where he had a normal face until being exposed to poison gas during WWI, which triggered the onset of the head-enlarging syndrome known as acromegaly.
Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.: Intriguing Factoids From the Horror/Sci-Fi/Mystery Genre Ph.D. Dr. Franklin Ruehl 2011
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It's not all the Club for Growth's fault, of course, but the narrowness of their (fiscal) vision is parallelled by other forces within contemporary conservatism that have left the party older and whiter and more religious than America as a whole.
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It's not all the Club for Growth's fault, of course, but the narrowness of their (fiscal) vision is parallelled by other forces within contemporary conservatism that have left the party older and whiter and more religious than America as a whole.
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It's not all the Club for Growth's fault, of course, but the narrowness of their (fiscal) vision is parallelled by other forces within contemporary conservatism that have left the party older and whiter and more religious than America as a whole.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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Which is parallelled by a growth of people making really weird uses of the minimal data we have so far.
Is it Racist if it's true? Steven Barnes 2008
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Of course, this great need for all things me... was parallelled in intensity by my complete and overwhelming need to get my office hooked up.
Phew!! Zombie Mom 2007
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At this point we figure that the level of demonity is parallelled by the level of baby cuteness and charm- in a cosmic act of darwinism.
Hating, Not Loving Zombie Mom 2007
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There are other, smaller points of similarity; Emma's boredom with village life is parallelled in Cher's boredom with high school boys.
Way Existential Jaime J. Weinman 2004
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The Staberinde breakout, the first battle we are told Elethiomel fights, is parallelled by the last one we see him fight with the Culture, at the Winter Palace.
Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks Abigail Nussbaum 2006
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