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horizontal

adjective as in lying flat

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And Morisot would adopt his horizontal composition and reclaim her own motif in the exquisite painting from the summer of 1874 “In a Villa by the Sea.”

Keck’s horizontal equestrian sculpture, which intimates occupation of the land, became Walker’s vertical, a grotesque standing humanoid, disemboweled.

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But the sheer horizontal and vertical reach of the progressive mindset in newsrooms, the entrenched nature of their ideological skew, will militate against a successful resetting of their compass.

If gold was an effective hedge against inflation — if it protected your purchasing power — that chart would be a reasonably stable horizontal line from left to right.

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In the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico, drillers that once spent more than two weeks drilling a well can now drill horizontal wells extending over nearly 2 miles in just four days.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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