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vertical

[vur-ti-kuhl] / ˈvɜr tɪ kəl /


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“The best way to ensure a great environment in downtown L.A. is to create what we’re calling a vertical campus,” Gitlin said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

They eased mechanical strain, making it practical to run banks of elevators continuously, packing in larger workforces and turning vertical circulation into a scalable system rather than a bottleneck.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

The neural network is trained using two complementary diffraction images, one captured with a vertical polarizer and one without.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

OpenAI scrapping its Sora artificial-intelligence video generator shows us that the technology still has a long way to go before it can replicate any vertical, according to one analyst.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 25, 2026

Rehearsals are an extra hour every night now, which means I’m having vertical dinners over the kitchen counter and trying not to drop crumbs in my textbooks.

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli