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horizontal

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


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Her garment, a one-piece tracksuit made of a French terry fabric by Alexander McQueen, dresses athleisure one step up with horizontal yellow accents across the chest and ruching up the sleeves.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

Eugene Levert, chain-smoking next to a stack of books while wearing a vertical blue-striped button-down and khaki slacks, looked the scholarly mirror of Doug Lamplugh, in a horizontal blue-striped polo and khaki shorts.

From Slate • May 4, 2026

Neurons form tightly organized, overlapping horizontal stripes based on the receptor they carry.

From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2026

That horizontal structure allows the PCC to expand rapidly without territorial control.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

Gradually, it became obvious that Gorringe is building some kind of device that will be attached to the obelisk and swivel it from the vertical to a horizontal position.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman




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