as in similarity
the quality or state of having many qualities in common
the striking parallelism between the two crimes got police to thinking that they were committed by the same mastermind
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Recent Examples of parallelism
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?
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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
In quantum computing, the concept of parallelism leverages superposition.
—Gregory Crawford, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
The beauty is that not only does this tend to keep the AI honest in terms of figuring out the proper steps, but the AI can also process the execution of the steps in parallel, assuming the AI is set up for parallelism.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
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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
In quantum computing, the concept of parallelism leverages superposition.
—Gregory Crawford, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
The beauty is that not only does this tend to keep the AI honest in terms of figuring out the proper steps, but the AI can also process the execution of the steps in parallel, assuming the AI is set up for parallelism.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parallelism
Noun
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There’s not much similarity between the two iterations.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
31 July 2025
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The photos accompanying the post are mostly side-by-sides of Brown with Yazdi and then Brown with Scott, as if to highlight the similarities between the two relationships.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
30 July 2025
Noun
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Congress funded the missions and may fund them again Presidential budget proposals are wish lists that often bear little resemblance to final congressional budgets.—
Rebecca Hersher,
NPR,
4 Aug. 2025
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Her playing has little resemblance to the predictable, nasal assaults that one usually associates with bagpipe music.—
Elena Saavedra Buckley,
New Yorker,
1 Aug. 2025
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“Parallelism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parallelism. Accessed 8 Aug. 2025.
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