Thesaurus results for PARALLELED

paralleled

verb

past tense of parallel

as in matched

to be the exact counterpart of developments in the television show paralleled those in the lead actor's real life

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Recent Examples of paralleled In the last seven years, Bryan’s struggle to become a better person has paralleled his quest to become a good songwriter. — Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 20 Oct. 2026 So the conversation paralleled what was going on with the character and with myself, which was cool. — Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026 The incident closely paralleled the sequence of events that in July resulted in another group of OpenAI’s agents launching cyberattacks against the company Hugging Face. — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026 The data paralleled numbers in California, where during this year’s June primary about 93,500 voters had their ballots rejected because they were postmarked or arrived too late to be counted. — ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026 Originally published in 1963, the book paralleled Plath’s own experiences with depression; the writer tragically died by suicide just a month after the novel’s first UK publication. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2026 Showrunner Bekah Brunstetter tells PEOPLE there were no chemistry reads during the casting process, which meant that the actresses’ bonding in real-time paralleled that of their characters. — Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 14 July 2026 Fascinatingly, the journey of the eager-to-please author often paralleled that of the novel’s protagonist, who fixates relentlessly on how others perceive her. — Literary Hub, 13 July 2026 The more compact forms now seen in Ukraine are the result of an evolution that paralleled that of the first-person view (FPV) attack drones. — Tereza Pultarova, IEEE Spectrum, 10 July 2026

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Loofe’s friend matched with Audrey and gave her details to investigators, who soon discovered that the phone number belonged to a 23-year-old woman named Bailey Boswell.

— Samantha Bergeson, Time, 22 Oct. 2026
The size of these holes matched the size and shape of a single bacterial cell, the study found.

— Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026

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