vertical
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It generally supports fewer tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic, because it can create strong vertical winds there that can tilt or tear those systems before they strengthen.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
San Jose-based Archer and Santa Cruz-based Joby both plan to offer a commercial air-taxi service using electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, or eVTOL.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
Just like the tourists perched above, visitors in the boats below try to get the ultimate snap: the vertical landscape looming over the Yangtze River in shades of electric blue, magenta and red.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
Behind stand the columns, echoed in vertical majesty by the thick tree trunks rising behind them on the other side of the park wall.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
That’s when the newspapers said Cleopatra’s Needle would be turned vertical.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
Vocabulary lists containing vertical
Expressions and Equations
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Geometry - Introductory
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The Number System
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