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
Speed, locality and parallelism will define success as workloads outpace traditional network and storage designs.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parallelism
Noun
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The similarities and the differences between England and Australia are nothing new.—
Darren Richman,
New York Times,
11 Nov. 2025
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Despite some similarities and speculation, the new comet likely originated from our solar system's Oort Cloud and is not directly connected to 3I/ATLAS.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
11 Nov. 2025
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That Bezos up on stage bore a strong resemblance to the one who attended high school in Miami.—
Vinod Sreeharsha,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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First, the aircraft’s fuselage emerged from inside a specialized cargo plane, known as an Airbus Beluga because of its resemblance to beluga whales.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Parallelism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parallelism. Accessed 5 Dec. 2025.
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