Thesaurus results for HORIZON

horizon

noun

Definition of horizon

as in skyline

the space surrounding the earth They saw some birds just on the horizon. The couple drove off towards the horizon.

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as in scope

an area of influence, knowledge, or understanding She wanted to expand her horizons so she went back to school.

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Recent Examples of horizon There was the sea, front and center, its horizon almost indistinguishable from the cloudless sky. — Jessica Sulima, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 July 2026 The return is indirect and the case is harder to make, but skimping here is what causes horizon-one wins to plateau and horizon-three ambitions to collapse. — Farooque Munshi, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026 Yet the mental horizons of Maucci and his associates were wider and more mobile than those of the big shots, small-time lawyers, and clerics who’d remained to vegetate in their old Lunigiana. — Literary Hub, 22 July 2026 The company described the incident as unprecedented, saying the models involved demonstrated advanced cyber capabilities while attempting to solve a benchmark designed to test long-horizon cyber operations. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for horizon

Recent Examples of Synonyms for horizon

Noun

Rooms and suites are spacious, with Frette linens, handmade Swedish mattresses, deep soaking tubs, rainfall showers, and floor-to-ceiling windows, while many overlook the Atlantic or the Miami skyline.

— Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2026
There’s something new — and very blue — decorating the downtown San Jose skyline.

— Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 25 July 2026

Definition of skyline

Noun

When work began last summer on the new westside I-285/I-20 interchange, Johnson thought his neighborhood fell in the project’s scope.

— Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 26 July 2026
Her job, as a senior health-policy official on the White House Domestic Policy Council, is to convert the president’s priorities into the scope and language of documents that will advance the White House’s agenda.

— Michael Scherer, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026

Definition of scope

Noun

Here, Monet painted his monumental Nymphéas series—around 250 canvases—capturing shifting reflections of sky, willow, and blossom.

— Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
However, this potential sky show isn’t a result of a coronal mass ejection (CME), the intense solar eruptions responsible for some of the most widespread aurora events in recent years.

— Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 21 July 2026

Definition of sky

Noun

Landon Knack, once seen as a part of the organization’s starting pitching depth, entered when Monday’s game was already out of reach.

— Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 21 July 2026
Keel said Stantt intends to pursue additional acquisitions of menswear brands that can further increase the company’s reach.

— Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 21 July 2026

Definition of reach

Noun

Thanks to dedicated allergy protocols and an impressive range of gluten-free meals, snacks and desserts, dining can become a part of the magic instead of a source of stress.

— AJC.com, AJC.com, 24 July 2026
Another season-ticket holder from that first year remembered crowds being firmly in the 5,500 range.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 24 July 2026

Definition of range

Noun

Ackman has become more ideological, expanding his crusades into cultural and academic realms.

— Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 20 July 2026
Though the song is heavily acoustic, its distorted guitar solos hail squarely from the realm of harder rock, and the artificial choirs that seep in toward the end seem to call out to the symphonic citadels of the Norwegian black metallers.

— Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 19 July 2026

Definition of realm

Noun

Frake-Waterfield created the TCU (ha ha) as a horror film franchise that turns public-domain children’s stories into slasher films.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 24 July 2026
If millions more digital products are created because the cost of building approaches zero, then even a small percentage progressing to real-world use translates into a meaningful increase in demand for domains.

— Michael Riedl, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026

Definition of domain

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