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
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.
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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
Enterprises are actively seeking alternatives to legacy systems that struggle with high parallelism and metadata-intensive workloads.
—Steve McDowell, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
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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
Enterprises are actively seeking alternatives to legacy systems that struggle with high parallelism and metadata-intensive workloads.
—Steve McDowell, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parallelism
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That event contained eerie similarities to the flood that occurred over the weekend, when slow-moving thunderstorms trained over a large area of the Hill Country during the late evening of July 16, 1987.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 July 2025
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The storyline seemed to have similarities to what happened on your season of The Bachelorette.—
Jason Pham,
StyleCaster,
7 July 2025
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But polls show a growing consensus among Americans that women's sports should be for women, and that Title IX has been stretched out of all resemblance to its original intent.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 July 2025
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Great for everything from a day at the pool to a trip abroad, per shopper reviews, this spacious carryall immediately caught our attention for bearing a striking resemblance to the tote Meghan Markle used to showcase a colorful garden haul, thanks to its woven texture and faux leather handle.—
Averi Baudler,
People.com,
9 July 2025
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“Parallelism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parallelism. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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