horizon
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With Christmas on the horizon, the toy industry in the US and elsewhere is about to have its busiest time of the year by far.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
"It allows for operations at very low altitudes -- it is controlled by a signal from space, bypassing the radio horizon and the Earth's curvature -- factors that otherwise limit ground-based remote control signals."
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
The 4% rule was built around a 30-year retirement, and retiring at 60 could mean 35 years or more, so some planners use 3.5% to 3.75% for a longer horizon.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
Over a longer time horizon, that additional income could more than compensate for a fund’s loss in price.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The sun was above the horizon, and the weather was fair enough, if breezy, but the men had not gone out to fish.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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"It will help the players themselves with opening up their horizons into different cultures, different countries, experiencing other footballing nations and other styles of football," he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Could technology’s latest twist broaden their horizons again?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
It opened up my horizons to a lot of different forms of working out that I just didn’t know before.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Regardless, should you ever feel that many people around you are looking increasingly smooth, there’s an easy solution that does not require Twilight Zone–style exile from society: Expand your social horizons a bit.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026
This was an impossibility, and if he could think of having a rifle whole horizons were burst and he could rush on.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
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