the horizon
noun
: the line where the earth or sea seems to meet the sky
The sun rose slowly over/above the eastern horizon.
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With the sun tracking low across the horizon, its rays arrive at a shallow angle, spreading light over a larger area and reducing heating.
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Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 21 Dec. 2025
This means that the Ursid meteor shower is visible only from the Northern Hemisphere, where the radiant point near the star Kochab in the Ursa Minor constellation remains above the horizon throughout the night.
—Nandika Chatterjee, Time, 21 Dec. 2025
There's nobody coming over the horizon to disarm them.
—NBC news, 21 Dec. 2025
On the tower’s other side, boundless flats of sand and cracked mud spread to the horizon across what was, prior to the river’s damming a century ago, one of Earth’s great green estuaries.
—Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025
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Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 21 Dec. 2025
This means that the Ursid meteor shower is visible only from the Northern Hemisphere, where the radiant point near the star Kochab in the Ursa Minor constellation remains above the horizon throughout the night.
—Nandika Chatterjee, Time, 21 Dec. 2025
There's nobody coming over the horizon to disarm them.
—NBC news, 21 Dec. 2025
On the tower’s other side, boundless flats of sand and cracked mud spread to the horizon across what was, prior to the river’s damming a century ago, one of Earth’s great green estuaries.
—Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025
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“The horizon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20horizon. Accessed 28 Dec. 2025.
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