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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
  • The trio could be a modern take on Sex and the City, but their passions for fashion and raunchy recaps are where the similarities end.
    Lex Goldstein, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Due to their nutritional similarities, the choice between pumpkin and summer squash may come down to your personal taste preferences.
    Brittany Lubeck, Verywell Health, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The film bears little to no resemblance to Hart's actual life, besides the fact that Mickey Rooney, who stars as Hart, is closer in height to Hart's diminutive 5-foot stature (Rooney beat Hart by two inches).
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Naturalizer Vivienne Ballet Flats These leather ballet flats bear a striking resemblance to ones that Jennifer Lawrence stepped out in recently.
    Jamie Allison Sanders, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Parallelism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parallelism. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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