be vertical

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Thill: One beneficiary in software is going to be vertical applications.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

The rear wall needs to be vertical rising up from the floor, but then at a certain height, it needs to start to gently slope toward the front of the fireplace.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 16, 2023

Two photons can be entangled so that each is in an uncertain both-ways state, but their polarizations are correlated so that if one is horizontal the other must be vertical and vice versa.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 20, 2022

It can be vertical or horizontal and is meant to be a hub for your family life.

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2021

Let EZ be vertical, then the circle QZP will be the meridian, and by its intersection A with the horizontal circle will determine the XII o'clock line EA.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various