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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
Second, I think that we talk about L.A. as a horizontal city, and that’s certainly true.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
In this case the outsider was the architect Peter Zumthor, who was dazzled by the vast horizontal expanse of Los Angeles, as different as possible from his native Switzerland.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 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
Figure 1.1: The five horizontal lines are the lines of the staff.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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Expressions and Equations
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Geometry - Introductory
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The Number System
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