vertical

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They eased mechanical strain, making it practical to run banks of elevators continuously, packing in larger workforces and turning vertical circulation into a scalable system rather than a bottleneck.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

This earthquake was triggered by a strike-slip fault, where two large sections of the Earth's crust move horizontally past each other along a vertical fracture.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

On Tuesday, the maker of electric vertical takeoff and landing, or eVTOL, aircraft, reported External link a 2025 operating loss of $127 million, with no sales.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

OpenAI scrapping its Sora artificial-intelligence video generator shows us that the technology still has a long way to go before it can replicate any vertical, according to one analyst.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 25, 2026

There's another sign, a long vertical one that hangs like a drape between two columns.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi