have a parallel
Frequency: 6.06.5 per million words
to possess a similar counterpart or situation
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Examples (10)
- This weather pattern of the southern hemisphere has no parallel in the north.
- The rise of the new technology has many parallels in the industrial revolution.
- Do you think this political crisis has a parallel in history?
- Her career path had an interesting parallel with that of her mentor.
- The two cases have several striking parallels that investigators are looking into.
- It is rare for a local conflict to have such a clear parallel on the global stage.
- The scientist noted that the virus's behavior has a close parallel in other known strains.
- We wondered if the fictional world in the book had any real-world parallels.
- The development of these two languages has an exact parallel in their grammar structures.
- Some people believe that every life has a parallel in a different dimension.