no parallel
idiom
: no thing of the same kind that is similar or equal
This period of growth has no parallel in the history of the region.
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And their success is easier to verify: Men have long been able to check their own sperm count with a device that’s similar to an at-home COVID test, but no parallel exists for women, Wang told me.
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Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2024
The reader is left to wonder, however, why these narratives remain persuasive to Britons in a way that has no parallel in the rest of Europe.
—David Reynolds, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2020
The United States established such agreements with the Soviet Union and renewed them with Russia, but there is no parallel accord with China.
—David E. Sanger, New York Times, 2 June 2023
Rather than a religious awakening, the USA was seeing a secular surge which had no parallel after the 1960s.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2012
The United States established such agreements with the Soviet Union and renewed them with Russia, but there is no parallel accord with China.
—David E. Sanger, New York Times, 2 June 2023
Feliciano and her family have been thrust squarely into a vast social, political and economic experiment that has no parallel or precedent.
—Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2021
And while Bernie Sanders has exerted real influence on domestic issues, and Biden has welcomed Elizabeth Warren campaign staffers into his administration—including many women and people of color—this changing of the domestic guard has no parallel on the foreign policy side.
—Aslı Bâli, The New Republic, 4 June 2021
The United States has done exactly that over the last year on a scale with no parallel since World War II.
—Neil Irwin, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2021
Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2024
The reader is left to wonder, however, why these narratives remain persuasive to Britons in a way that has no parallel in the rest of Europe.
—David Reynolds, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2020
The United States established such agreements with the Soviet Union and renewed them with Russia, but there is no parallel accord with China.
—David E. Sanger, New York Times, 2 June 2023
Rather than a religious awakening, the USA was seeing a secular surge which had no parallel after the 1960s.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2012
The United States established such agreements with the Soviet Union and renewed them with Russia, but there is no parallel accord with China.
—David E. Sanger, New York Times, 2 June 2023
Feliciano and her family have been thrust squarely into a vast social, political and economic experiment that has no parallel or precedent.
—Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2021
And while Bernie Sanders has exerted real influence on domestic issues, and Biden has welcomed Elizabeth Warren campaign staffers into his administration—including many women and people of color—this changing of the domestic guard has no parallel on the foreign policy side.
—Aslı Bâli, The New Republic, 4 June 2021
The United States has done exactly that over the last year on a scale with no parallel since World War II.
—Neil Irwin, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2021
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“No parallel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/no%20parallel. Accessed 28 Apr. 2024.
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