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horizontal

adjective as in lying flat

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Voters can hold incumbents accountable in elections — political scientists call this “vertical accountability” — as can coequal branches of government, which we call “horizontal accountability.”

They sliced it into nine horizontal sections and analysed it for clues about the animal's diet, environment and movement.

From BBC

“I was horizontal for three weeks, it felt like,” she says.

Footage showed the horizontal equine squirming and struggling as a firefighter and a veterinarian assisted him.

His Lions and Ireland coach Andy Farrell calls him horizontal, such is his unflappable personality.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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