vertical
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At that moment Benson was tempted to use his vertical leap of more than 40 inches to simply glide over him like going over hurdles in a 110-meter race.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
The vertical, polymer banknote will enter circulation early next year.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Warm waters provide fuel for storms, and El Nino's effect on the atmosphere leaves little vertical wind shear over the Pacific, creating favorable conditions for hurricanes to intensify.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
"We're saying there's a functional equivalence here. So you can't rule out vertical climbing just because something doesn't have a chimpanzee-like foot."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
It rose, seemingly endlessly, and came to rest across Voldemort’s shoulders: its neck the thickness of a man’s thigh; its eyes, with their vertical slits for pupils, unblinking.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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These new verticals have much more promising prospects than cars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
With the addition of new manufacturing facilities in Silicon Valley, the company is well-positioned to meet growing demand for artificial intelligence and enterprise verticals, said Chief Executive Charles Liang.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
“IP is at the center” — that’s short for intellectual property — “and then they can go execute across all the verticals, whether it’s experiential, merchandise, licensing, films, music, all of it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
Additionally, these verticals facilitate the distribution and scale of Google’s AI products.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 29, 2025
I may read it as a series of horizontals, or of verticals, or of diagonals, according as I attend to it.
From The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Carleton Eldredge Noyes
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