lateral

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This allows them to extract more crude from smaller pieces of land where they can’t drill one long lateral section.

From The Wall Street Journal

Those lateral interactions can alter the electronic structure and potentially disrupt true one-dimensional behavior.

From Science Daily

In 2019, she won a bronze medal at world championships without a lateral collateral ligament and three tibial fractures in her left knee.

From Los Angeles Times

The ACL plays a crucial role in stabilizing the knee, especially during sharp lateral movements—the movements involved in skiing come to mind.

From The Wall Street Journal

Downhill ski racers are not running backs or point guards, however, and don’t make those same jolting lateral moves and therefore, experts say, are better able to compensate for a torn ACL.

From Los Angeles Times