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horizontal

[hawr-uh-zon-tl, hor-] / ˌhɔr əˈzɒn tl, ˌhɒr- /


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The wind it protected people from has made its trunk grow almost horizontal.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 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

Devon combined the innovation with horizontal drilling—and helped unleash the shale revolution that turned the U.S. into the world’s top producer of oil and natural gas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Did it spend much of its time among high horizontal branches, climb vertically from the ground, or combine both behaviors?

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

Whereas most early Austronesian pottery in the Philippines and Indonesia was undecorated, pottery in the New Guinea region was finely decorated with geometric designs arranged in horizontal bands.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

“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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