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Unlike winds in the atmosphere, this mantle wind consists of a broad horizontal movement of hot, slowly flowing rock within Earth's mantle.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026
He used it here to give balance and focus to the home’s 110-foot-long facade, and to control its horizontal sprawl.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
It uses low-stretch climbing ropes that convert the fall into a horizontal, pendulum swing, while bungee jumping uses an elastic rubber cord that creates a vertical, bouncing effect.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
Three hours before the match, AFP spoke with several protesters who held tickets and wore T-shirts printed with that pre-revolution flag -- horizontal green, white and red stripes overlaid with a sun and a lion.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
‘Declination’ here means variation east and west, while ‘inclination’ means variation up or down from the horizontal.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
“Florida Painting” etches red horizontals into a yellow expanse flanked by vivid green, while the two-panel “Space Age Relaxation” carves white lines and colored bars into brown fields.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2021
For the Academy, City Hall’s arresting vertical lines were tranquilized into calming horizontals.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2020
The only strict horizontals and verticals that will be found are in the rectangular paintings' edges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2015
"There are several decades of a growing knowledge base for horizontals," said Veers.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2011
She pointed to the dense thorny branches of a Blood Rose, cut and pinioned into cruel horizontals against the wall, yet still wild and heavy with dark red blooms.
From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff
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Expressions and Equations
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Geometry - Introductory
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The Number System
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