Microsoft has trended up in parallel to this recent movement.

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Longshore transport: movement of material parallel to the shore, also referred to as longshore drift.

UNESCO: L O S S A R Y

Longshore current: a movement of water parallel to the shore, caused by waves.

UNESCO: L O S S A R Y

He was a leader of Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement until he set up a parallel organisation in 2007.

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No historic parallel is perfect, but it is hard not to hear echoes of the civil rights movement in the United States.

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About an hour later, I was part of the mass movement of students going in opposite directions, in wind-whipped snow, two roughly parallel columns moving from old campus to new and vice versa, faces in ski masks, bodies shouldering into the wind or pushed along by it.

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Cloud computing fundamentally shifts the benefits of the Open Source movement, fueling innovation from new sectors, and impacting our culture at large in ways that parallel how we have seen Twitter and Facebook up-end the status quo.

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