Parallels
/ˈpærəˌlɛlz/
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- (n.) Lines or concepts that are analogous or correspond to each other, often used in legal reasoning to draw comparisons.
The lawyer drew parallels between the two cases to support her argument.
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In legal contexts, 'parallels' commonly denotes points of similarity used to reason by analogy; it often appears in plural form and rarely as a verb.
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