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“The natural question is whether agentic shopping from external horizontal agents is meaningfully impacting Amazon Ads, and the answer is no,” CEO Andy Jassy said on the company’s call to discuss its third-quarter results.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
The pots were large ovoid, flat-based jars with two handles, many featuring a raised horizontal clay “belt” around the widest part of the jar.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
Delta Air Lines Flight 7 was taxiing for departure when its left wing clipped Air Canada Flight 785’s horizontal stabilizer at around 10:30 a.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
An infield painted black sought to focus attention on the illuminated live events, while the horizontal jumps were decided in a bright pink sandpit.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 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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