laterally
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The FAA review found the president’s airplane was as close as 1.06 miles laterally and 300 feet vertically from the American regional jet, according to the agency document.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
She has been in intensive therapy this week, posting videos of her squatting, jumping and moving laterally in a knee brace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2026
Unlike universal injunctions, which are top-down blocks, collateral estoppel works laterally — one court at a time, but each building on the last.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2025
The ceratioids then developed features such as larger jaws, smaller eyes and laterally compressed bodies -- adaptations tailored to life in an environment with limited food and no sunlight.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024
The movements occur not just laterally as the Earth’s plates move across the surface, but up and down as well, as rocks rise and fall under the churning process known as convection.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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