vertical
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"This is expected to slow the vertical mixing that carries nutrients like phosphate up from depth."
From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026
The company revolutionized social media by popularizing vertical video and disappearing posts, but rivals such as Meta-owned Instagram copied its features.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
Around us there are several vertical cylinders like so many different-sized water heaters.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
The project appears complex as it requires high structural rigidity and a 62-meters vertical clearance, he reckons.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
As they drew nearer, however, his face shone through the gloom, hairless, snakelike, with slits for nostrils and gleaming red eyes whose pupils were vertical.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
Vocabulary lists containing vertical
Expressions and Equations
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Geometry - Introductory
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The Number System
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