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“The natural question is whether agentic shopping from external horizontal agents is meaningfully impacting Amazon Ads, and the answer is no,” CEO Andy Jassy said on the company’s call to discuss its third-quarter results.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
This uneven heating created a temperature difference across the Moon's molten interior, setting off large-scale horizontal circulation.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
Delta Air Lines Flight 7 was taxiing for departure when its left wing clipped Air Canada Flight 785’s horizontal stabilizer at around 10:30 a.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Speaking exclusively to the BBC, she said bacteria are known to undergo changes like this, known as horizontal gene transfer.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Modeled after one made by the famous German painter Albrecht Dürer, and depicted in Vincent's art manuals, it’s an open rectangle made of wood, strung with horizontal and vertical threads to make a grid.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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“Florida Painting” etches red horizontals into a yellow expanse flanked by vivid green, while the two-panel “Space Age Relaxation” carves white lines and colored bars into brown fields.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2021
For the Academy, City Hall’s arresting vertical lines were tranquilized into calming horizontals.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2020
The only strict horizontals and verticals that will be found are in the rectangular paintings' edges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2015
"There are several decades of a growing knowledge base for horizontals," said Veers.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2011
She pointed to the dense thorny branches of a Blood Rose, cut and pinioned into cruel horizontals against the wall, yet still wild and heavy with dark red blooms.
From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff
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