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Recent Examples of parallelism Speed, locality and parallelism will define success as workloads outpace traditional network and storage designs. Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025 StarCore’s architectures used a long instruction word architecture that encoded multiple, independent operations in a single instruction in order to exploit parallelism in DSP code. IEEE Spectrum, 30 June 2025 The evolution across a century of which each family member considers to be home during their respective teen years is threaded by uncanny parallelisms that lead to the question: Can memories can be inherited, repeated, and ultimately, relived? Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 13 May 2025 But Lost Records evades too close a parallelism to Paper Girls by also mixing in familiar elements from Showtime’s Yellowjackets, which transpires in 1996, focusing on a group of teenagers fighting for survival after a plane crash. Diego Argüello, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for parallelism
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Noun
  • Due to the similarities with the viral Coldplay jumbotron, social media users were quick to assume that something untoward was happening.
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Vasquez seemingly shared no visual similarities to Samuel Vazquez, a 41-year-old accused of assaulting his ex-girlfriend and her dog outside a Publix in Davenport, the outlet reported.
    Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Despite his mother’s wish to keep the boy out of the Hollywood spotlight, his resemblance at 16 to his father was such that he was cast as Robert’s younger brother in Thunder Road.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
  • From jokes about his resemblance to former NBA star Delonté West to comments about the cover hurting the album’s streams, Thug’s provocative art, for the first time, landed flat.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Parallelism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parallelism. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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