What is a good transition word to establish or allude to a parallel?

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I am looking for a word or phrase to replace "similarly" in the following sentence:

"The obligation from making a promise is an obligation to someone; similarly, the wrong in breaking a promise is an interpersonal wrong, specifically a wrong against the person to whom the obligation was made."

"Similarly" seems too imprecise and doesn't convey the meaning I am trying to establish. I am tempted to use a word like "therefore," but I mean to indicate that the halves of the sentence should be thought of as parallel and not necessarily that the second follows from the first.

Hank · Answer

Perhaps equivalently or likewise will work for you:

Equivalent

Having the same value, use, and meaning.

"...obligation to someone; equivalently, the wrong..."

(MWD)

Likewise

In the same way; in like manner; similarly.

"...obligation to someone; likewise, the wrong..."

(MWD)

fev · Answer

This is how I understand your sentence

Making a promise is an obligation to a person, (just) as breaking a promise is a wrong against the person to whom the promise was
made.

(just) as can be

used to indicate by comparison the way that something happens or is done. (OxfordL)

There are other synonym phrases like:

in the same manner (way) that

or

correspondingly which means in a way that is similar to, connected with, or caused by something else (Cambridge)

This site provides more information about Connectives.

user405662 · Answer

This phrase, perhaps?
By the same token

used to mean that something you are about to say is also true, for the same reasons as what has just been said:

I don't think that prices will go up but, by the same token, I don't see them going down either.
[Cambridge]

What is a good transition word to establish or allude to a parallel?

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Equivalent

Likewise

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