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


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A J-15 jet fighter launched from one of them tailed a Japanese patrol craft for 40 minutes, at one point coming within a horizontal distance of 150 feet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Instagram now lets creators upload horizontal videos as long as 90 minutes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

This uneven heating created a temperature difference across the Moon's molten interior, setting off large-scale horizontal circulation.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

The wind it protected people from has made its trunk grow almost horizontal.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Some of the pieces seemed to form horizontal layers.

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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