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horizontal

[hawr-uh-zon-tl, hor-] / ˌhɔr əˈzɒn tl, ˌhɒr- /


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Note: WSJ interpretation that shows a 2D horizontal cross-section of OpenAI’s 3D simulation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

The researchers then arranged horizontal and vertical stripes in systematic combinations.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

Cowin has also spliced together photographs of disparate subjects — people, places and things — on broad horizontal panels that suggest narrative progression but instead register as evocative panoramic poems.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

On the wall of a five-story building that collapsed after the earthquake, a rescuer marked a red "V" crossed by a horizontal line, indicating the end of the search for possible survivors.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

At first, all she saw was darkness—a tight, closed-up sort of darkness, with a single, pale, horizontal line of light cutting across.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

“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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