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having qualities in common

parallel lives of two friends who first met in college

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on the order of

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parallel

noun

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1 a point which two or more things share in common

her professor pointed out some parallels between the two novels

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analogy

homology

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dissimilarity

2 one that is equal to another in status, achievement, or value

an advance that is without parallel in the history of virology

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analogue
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competitor

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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similar, analogous, parallel mean closely resembling each other. similar implies the possibility of being mistaken for each other. all the houses in the development are similar analogous applies to things belonging in essentially different categories but nevertheless having many similarities. analogous political systems parallel suggests a marked likeness in the development of two things. the parallel careers of two movie stars