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A parallelogram or trapezoid.

No!

A parallelogram or a trapezoid are polygons (2-dimensional). A polyhedron, or 3-dimensional object, with parallel congruent bases is a prism.
A prism. To give it fuller description, an "n-gonal prism" where the "n-gon" refers to the 2-d name of the bases.

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