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horizontal

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


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An infield painted black sought to focus attention on the illuminated live events, while the horizontal jumps were decided in a bright pink sandpit.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 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

The separated fan blade resulted in damage to portions of the engine’s cover and sent engine fragments flying, striking the airplane’s fuselage and its horizontal stabilizer, according to the report.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

The suit argues that owning the Golden Globes would “solidify a vertical and horizontal monopoly on the awards market.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

The Inka homeland, uniquely high, was also uniquely steep, with slopes of more than sixty-five degrees from the horizontal.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

“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

In the end, both vertical and horizontal turbines have their trade-offs, though horizontals are a more mature technology.

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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