How to Use without parallel in a Sentence

without parallel

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  • In his view, the fixation on an artifact that is without parallel is the biggest problem with this dispute.
    New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021
  • The minutes-long scene is without parallel in the many previous pop culture depictions of the mythological moment.
    David MacK, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
  • But even sympathetic economists warn that without parallel measures to boost supply, a freeze simply defers the reckoning.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Aside from our big brains, the trait that most distinguishes humans from other animals is our ability to walk fully upright on two legs, a style of movement without parallel in the animal kingdom.
    Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Vaunted as the largest in the world, India’s vaccine program is being hobbled by supply shortages and an abrupt shift in procurement policy that appears to be without parallel.
    Washington Post, 17 May 2021
  • An approach involving litigation only, without parallel licensing efforts, can be expensive and leave money on the table.
    John Quinn, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Nebraska logged the lowest unemployment rate of any state on record in October, reflecting the acute labor shortages that have quickly swept across the nation amid an economic recovery that is without parallel.
    Sarah Chaney Cambon, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2021
  • While doing important work, the team does not have the capacity and resources to address the nature, severity and scale of human rights violations in North Korea, a state without parallel.
    Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
  • An exhausted, exasperated nation is suffering from the effects of a pandemic that has upended society on a scale and duration without parallel in living memory.
    Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2020
  • In recent years, the United States has supplied a steady drumbeat of stories about mass shootings, police brutality, and urban unrest—a degree of chaos and violence without parallel in China.
    Wang Jisi, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021
  • Guthrie’s situation is without parallel in the world of morning news, which has in recent years seen anchors like Robin Roberts and Sheinelle Jones return to programs after dealing, respectively, with bone marrow cancer and the death of a spouse.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The Inflation Reduction Act accelerated clean energy deployment, but without parallel investment in balancing technologies, reliability risks grow.
    Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The Jones Act of 1920 — intended to protect domestic fleets — barred international construction for US operators, but without parallel investments to modernize US shipyards, the law only raised costs.
    Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025

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