And there is at least one direct parallel.

Every shot was culled from other movies (though there would be direct parallels for each one in the final version).

It is a concept that has been without direct parallel before or since.

But I'm certainly not looking for a direct parallel.

One can find direct parallels to the messages that Vorilhon claimed to have received and written about in his books.

The stock market is undergoing a series of stresses with no direct parallels in the recent past.

The formal model has direct parallels in signal detection theory and latent class analysis.

Conditions in Chicago and New York are not direct parallels.

And, she noted, his sense of trepidation had grown in direct parallel.

It's not a direct parallel, but there are some parallels to be drawn.