How to Use no parallel in a Sentence

no parallel

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  • Moreover, the bill creates no parallel right to sue to stop the counting of legally invalid votes.
    The Editors, National Review, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Presently, there is no parallel watch list for the Mississippi River basin.
    Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, Journal Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The fires unfolding in California right now have no parallel in modern times.
    Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2020
  • The supply-chain crisis, Mr. Levy contends, has no parallel in history.
    Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
  • There is no parallel for this anywhere else in the American political system.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Individuals and groups are constrained by law in ways that have no parallel in other democracies.
    Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2021
  • And there’s the organization’s description of itself as a product with no parallel.
    Jack Butler, National Review, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Wolf’s long tryout period has no parallel in the 18-year history of DHS, created after the Sept. 11 attack to protect the country from mass terrorism.
    Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Hopefully no parallel parking is required on this particular road trip.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 17 Feb. 2022
  • But beyond their accounts, the only publicly available record of the proceeding — an event with sprawling political consequences and no parallel in American history — is a 32-page court transcript and drawings from three courtroom sketch artists.
    Derek Hawkins, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023
  • But Simons urged new residents to have no hesitation in seeking counseling, to remember their careers were beginning at a time with no parallel in recent memory.
    Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Death penalty experts say the way the Trump administration is moving ahead with executions during a lame-duck period has no parallel, and that in the past, the outgoing administration would defer such cases to the incoming one.
    Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2020
  • The Tai may have brought superior agricultural techniques, and so entered into a phase of rapid population expansion into the lowland frontier, which had no parallel during the Mon and Khmer period of dominance.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2011
  • Feliciano and her family have been thrust squarely into a vast social, political and economic experiment that has no parallel or precedent.
    Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2021
  • There are no parallel federal authorities for requiring minimum standards of cybersecurity at hospitals, which are largely state regulated.
    David E. Sanger, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023

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