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horizontal

[hawr-uh-zon-tl, hor-] / ˌhɔr əˈzɒn tl, ˌhɒr- /


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Three hours before the match, AFP spoke with several protesters who held tickets and wore T-shirts printed with that pre-revolution flag -- horizontal green, white and red stripes overlaid with a sun and a lion.

From Barron's • Jun. 15, 2026

It cuts across the Garden like a horizontal wedge between the train station below and the stadium floor above.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2026

L.A. was where he had come of age, and it remained an indelible part of his life and psyche — not least in terms of its egalitarian spirit and its tendency toward the horizontal.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

A horizontal magnetic field generated a two dimensional flow, while an array of rods was used to disturb it.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026

The horizontal axis represents the real part of the complex number, while the vertical axis represents the imaginary part.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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