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The phrase "a close parallel between" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing similarities or comparisons between two or more subjects, ideas, or situations.
Example: "There is a close parallel between the themes of love and sacrifice in both novels."
Alternatives: "a strong resemblance between" or "a significant similarity between".
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There is, she suggests, a close parallel between yeast and us.
There is a close parallel between the euro crisis and the international banking crisis of 1982.
Surely there is a close parallel between A Scattering and Birthday Letters, the latter a collection of poems that Hughes wrote to his dead wife Sylvia Plath?
There is a close parallel between this situation and the fable of the several blind men who decided what an elephant is by touching only individual parts of the animal.
I imagined that there was a close parallel between my gluttonous flailing and ultimate failure to finish the platter and the strong man's struggle to drag keg after keg out of the ocean, each trip more labored until, finally, he grimaced in surrender.
In the Fourth Meditation, Descartes draws a close parallel between the will's relation to the true and to the good.
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People here who foresee the latter outcome say that Libya is about to become just one more demonstration of the fact that in international affairs, as in everything else, good intentions aren't enough, and they profess to discern an uncomfortably close parallel between the situation here and the situations precipitated at Versailles thirty-some years ago and at Yalta and Potsdam more recently.
Will Frears directs William Goldman's snowbound script, a close parallel of his 1990 screenplay.
There is good reason to think that [dog distemper] offers a close parallel to human influenza.
Like his father, John Kennedy loved Nevada's wide-open fiscal and sexual ethos, and the close parallel between the meteoric rise of the Strip and his own political career was hardly a coincidence.
We listen to Senator Cruz lecture Senator Feinstein about, in his view, the close parallel between the First and Second Amendments.
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