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
By reducing tensor parallelism from eight-way to four-way, each GPU performed more computation locally rather than coordinating across the full server.
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Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 19 Jan. 2026
This parallelism may be a hint as to why spatial expressions are used widely in a social context.
—Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
This is not to defend Cook, but rather to illustrate the parallelism and hypocrisy of the rule of law being subordinated to the law of the ruler.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 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
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Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 19 Jan. 2026
This parallelism may be a hint as to why spatial expressions are used widely in a social context.
—Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
This is not to defend Cook, but rather to illustrate the parallelism and hypocrisy of the rule of law being subordinated to the law of the ruler.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parallelism
Noun
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The conversation between Nevin and Cholowsky during their hourlong lunch mostly was about their similarities at the same stage in their careers and the ways Nevin approached the day-to-day of his draft year.—
Eric Olson,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Feb. 2026
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Some noticed similarities between the Native and Vietnamese colonial experiences.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
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From its immense wealth to the stability of its institutions, the United States bears little resemblance to Haiti.—
Dan Horn,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
5 Feb. 2026
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Lee’s home is nestled in the Bordeaux community, a traditionally African American neighborhood in northwest Nashville named for its resemblance to the southwestern French city.—
Felicia Feaster,
AJC.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Parallelism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parallelism. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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