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- noun Plural form of
parallel .
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Examples
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Nor does any problem arise from identifying both Socrates's humanity and his animality, say, with Socrates himself, despite these particularised properties being instances of different universals, for this entirely parallels the fact that Socrates himself is an instance both of human-kind and of animal-kind ” indeed, ˜parallels™ is too weak a term on the present view, since on this view these two ways of talking reflect only a distinction of reason.
Ontological Dependence Lowe, E. Jonathan 2009
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When my father told me the story of this ancestor, that was one of the first things I thought of -- that there were certain parallels to The
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Yes, but in your example one of the supposed parallels is literally several orders of magnitude worse than the other.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Kobach on Arizona’s Immigration Law 2010
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My MBP is small enough for travel (and I regularly write on economy flights without a problem), powerful enough to run video encoding, GIS and 3D software (some of these in parallels) plus anything else I throw at it, and has the advantage of being OSX.
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"People can connect it, and I saw certain parallels, maybe parallels I'd like to have seen in the United States," Eastwood says.
Art coincidentally imitates life in historic, timely 'Invictus' 2009
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Your idea of historical parallels is about as extreme (and completely incorrect) as a right-whining homo-phobe can get!
Think Progress » Cuccinelli: Homosexual ‘acts’ are a ‘detriment to our culture.’ 2010
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While we're not trying to run that country, there are certain parallels that should be cause for concern.
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Your idea of historical parallels is about as extreme (and completely incorrect) as a right-whining homo-phobe can get!
Think Progress » Cuccinelli: Homosexual ‘acts’ are a ‘detriment to our culture.’ 2010
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Hopefully, Rose and Ten 2 returning will prove that mortals can defend the Earth, because it happens in parallels, so he'll be more willing to give up the day job.
Humperdinck: "Now, if we only had a wheelbarrow..." rabid1st 2009
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He is less interested in parallels with contemporary philosophical sources of the self and the logical priority of discourse to consciousness, although he does compare Shaftesbury with Gadamer and Habermas.
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