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Figure 2.71 The intersection of two nonparallel planes is always a line.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

In two dimensions, it is impossible to generate a vector simultaneously orthogonal to two nonparallel vectors.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

Powder or crud will amplify�and ultimately punish�any nonparallel turns such as wedges, steps or stems.

From Time Magazine Archive

Over and over we hear in voiceover or see in graphic display the “three principles,” which are maddeningly, even defiantly, nonparallel: “respect for the individual, exceeding customers’ expectations, strive for excellence.”

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

Because quantifiers like both and either have a disconcerting habit of floating around the sentence, the phrases that come after them may end up nonparallel, and that grates on the ear.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker