laterally
Example Sentences
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“Growth and development doesn’t just mean a promotion—you also can expand and grow and develop laterally, and maybe in a different function area.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026
The proportion of attacking phases in which the ball is moved 20 metres laterally from the previous breakdown has nearly doubled.
From BBC • Nov. 23, 2025
Unlike universal injunctions, which are top-down blocks, collateral estoppel works laterally — one court at a time, but each building on the last.
From Salon • Jun. 30, 2025
As much as the major wildfires were spreading seaward — as is typical during Santa Anas — the blazes were growing laterally, he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2025
In a scene that sounded remarkably like what Voight had just told Crandell, the force of the eruption was directed laterally, out from the side of the volcano.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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