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
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.
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Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
DiLoCoX pioneers a number of novel techniques, including pipeline parallelism, adaptive gradient compression, one-step-delay communication overlaps and local training, to create a decentralized AI training environment that scales to unprecedented heights.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2025
Speed, locality and parallelism will define success as workloads outpace traditional network and storage designs.
—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
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Mpro, an enzyme that allows SARS-CoV-2 to replicate in host cells, holds structural similarities.—
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Researchers began to explore representational similarity among AI models with this approach in the mid-2010s and found that different models’ representations of the same concepts were often similar, though far from identical.—
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The radical republic that replaced it bore little resemblance to the partner of 1778, having descended into chaos, executions, and ideological extremism that threatened neighboring states.—
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Apart from being an actor, Lewis bears a striking resemblance to his dad.—
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“Parallelism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parallelism. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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