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vertical

[vur-ti-kuhl] / ˈvɜr tɪ kəl /


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During De Zerbi's time at Marseille, diagonal runs from wide attackers on the last line, found by willing vertical passers, worked as a way of finding goals.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

On the latest episode of ICYMI, host Kate Lindsay introduces listeners to the phenomenon of vertical microdramas, which are 90-second snippets of content chock-full of some of the most absurd plotlines you’ve ever seen.

From Slate Sep. 16, 2026

Is it vertical applications like Harvey for legal or Cursor for coding?

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

“Consolidation and vertical integration accelerated in the late 2010s as large for-profit insurers acquired providers, pharmacies, and PBMs,” the paper notes.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

I had seen the train’s vertical position from the air, but it was even more intense when you were actually inside it.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

We’d give them new blood, new direction, and they’d give us cash, prestige, verticals.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Several end markets are improving, though capital investment remains muted in some verticals, Monet said.

From The Wall Street Journal May 5, 2026

“When people spend more days in a month with us across more moments, more devices and more verticals, it proves our product is working.”

From Barron's Feb. 9, 2026

“IP is at the center” — that’s short for intellectual property — “and then they can go execute across all the verticals, whether it’s experiential, merchandise, licensing, films, music, all of it.”

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 30, 2026

To draw the cross, raise verticals from the four corners of its base, and a line K from its centre.

From The Theory and Practice of Perspective by G. A. (George Adolphus) Storey




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