perpendicular

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“This isn’t just a missing person case,” said Travis Harrison, a producer at NewsNation, which has pulled together a hovel of satellites and folding chairs in the prime real estate perpendicular to Guthrie’s address.

From Slate • Feb. 23, 2026

The front door is easily visible from the road—but likely out of eye or camera sight from even the neighbors up the hill on perpendicular Cerrada Chica.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

A stream of oil introduced from a perpendicular direction then broke the combined flow into extremely small droplets, each one fully encapsulated.

From Science Daily • Jan. 17, 2026

But, on the day of an equinox, the tilt of Earth's axis is perpendicular to the Sun's rays, producing a nearly equal amount of day and night all over the world.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2024

It was as near perpendicular as a slope can get without actually being a rock climb.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson