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Eugene Levert, chain-smoking next to a stack of books while wearing a vertical blue-striped button-down and khaki slacks, looked the scholarly mirror of Doug Lamplugh, in a horizontal blue-striped polo and khaki shorts.
From Slate • May 4, 2026
Second, I think that we talk about L.A. as a horizontal city, and that’s certainly true.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
By the 1870s his work—often passively comfortable with the standard paysage, or horizontal format, and entranced by distant spectacles like sunsets or mountaintops—began to seem sedate to serious viewers.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
This "selfless" sharing, known as horizontal gene transfer, can rapidly spread useful traits including genes that confer resistance to antibiotic drugs used to treat infections.
From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026
The thinner tripe with horizontal grooves has thick seams called callo.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
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Expressions and Equations
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Geometry - Introductory
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The Number System
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