horizontal

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“I always think the bigger prize is horizontal drilling, but there’s a lot of wood to chop there,” he added.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

The company built and flew a prototype of one such drone, in which batteries power the vertical takeoff and the rotary engine takes over for long-range horizontal flight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

This "selfless" sharing, known as horizontal gene transfer, can rapidly spread useful traits including genes that confer resistance to antibiotic drugs used to treat infections.

From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026

That’s because if high-income shoppers scale back their spending, then the other horizontal lines of the “E” — the lower and middle classes — may not have enough spending power to keep the economy afloat.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

He was responsible for the way architects and engineers draw buildings and machines: they project the design onto a vertical plane and a horizontal plane, preserving all the information needed to reconstruct the object.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife