How to Use parallelism in a Sentence
parallelism
noun- There is some degree of parallelism between the lives of the two women.
- There is a certain parallelism in the development of the two technologies.
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There is a clear parallelism between Balak and events in the Book of Exodus.
—Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 21 June 2021
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The stories had a pleasing parallelism to them — the random travel from place to place, the studious tracking of the specimen.
—Photographs and Text By Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 9 June 2017
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Both businesswomen join the war effort at the same time, fall out of fashion at the same time, and so on, but the parallelism of their careers, signalled by a split-screen set, is too neat and repetitive a theme to sustain two acts.
—The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2017
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Parallelism in coding is hard, at times unintuitive, that’s true.
—Dylan Tweney, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2009
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To make supply chains resilient, multiple paths or parallelism should be deployed.
—Cyrus Hadavi, Forbes, 4 June 2021
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But the machine’s real power comes not through that massive parallelism, but in problems where possible solutions can be encoded in quantum waves that slosh among the qubits.
—Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 26 June 2019
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Instead, since 2005, many of the gains in computing power have come from adding more parallelism via multiple cores, with multiple levels of memory.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2013
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One is parallelism between an early battle which the protagonist loses, and a final fight which the protagonist wins.
—Ciara Wardlow, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2018
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There are pleasing artistic flourishes like a foreshadowing image of waves overwhelming Tati, and parallelisms elsewhere that endow the movie with a literary feel.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2018
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Larger SSDs can use more parallelism and operate with higher throughput than smaller ones.
—Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2019
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Sunny Cove cores find greater opportunities for parallelism by increasing the cache sizes.
—Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 12 Dec. 2018
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As shown with Heron, systems can be linked together with classical parallelism using chip-to-chip links for multiple modules or extend the size of individual units with long range coupling.
—Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 18 May 2022
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As clock speeds tended to top out at 4GHz to 5GHz, parallelism—originally in the form of support for more processor threads, and later to more physical cores—kept the processor performance on an upward trajectory.
—Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 8 Oct. 2018
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On the technical side of things, data-center-scale computing generally relies as much or more on massive parallelism as per-thread performance.
—Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 17 June 2019
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Two of the most useful literary devices for creating persuasive appeal as a leader are parallelism in combination with triads.
—Dan Bullock, Quartz, 6 July 2021
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At the highest level, Exadata X9M enables fast analytics through parallelism and smart storage.
—Steve McDowell, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
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But whether its convergence or parallelism, what sort of environment selects for intelligence?
—Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2017
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Using parallelism helps others to mentally group information, while heightening their senses to predict your next statement.
—Dan Bullock, Quartz, 6 July 2021
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However, edge compute performance does bring decreases in costs and increases in parallelism, while deep learning brings increases in efficiency and more capabilities into the reach of commercial scenarios.
—Cyra Richardson, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
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Moving away from an electronic model of data storage and computation and toward one based on chemistry promises tremendous improvements in physical density, portability and data parallelism.
—Hyunjun Park, Forbes, 4 June 2021
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This parallelism boosts overall computing brain power to process huge volumes of data to perform complex computational calculations, explained Devgan.
—Russ Banham, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
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The parallelism allows qubits to do more calculations simultaneously.
—Agam Shah, PCWorld, 4 May 2017
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