horizon

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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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Recent Examples of horizon In recent years, the fan-favorite brand has expanded its horizons, adding office-ready trousers, cozy knitwear, and other non-athleisure styles to its offerings. Genevieve Cepeda, Travel + Leisure, 20 Apr. 2025 With all that said, hopefully Emmy voters are down to broaden their horizons and give credit to other networks and streaming services. Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 18 Apr. 2025 Kelly Ripa has mastered the art of morning television — now the Live With Kelly & Mark host wants to expand her horizons by potentially returning to college to complete her four-year degree. Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2025 Inflation expectations held steady at 3% at the three-year-ahead horizon and ticked down by 0.1 percentage point to 2.9% at the five-year mark. Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 14 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for horizon
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horizon
Noun
  • The skyscrapers of the banking skyline rise up behind them.
    Jenni Reid,Sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Also available for sale is The Luminaries at London Square Nine Elms: elegant, contemporary penthouse apartments with balconies offering breathtaking views of the London skyline.
    Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Last year, for example, the mission team shifted the scope into one-gyro mode after yet another of the devices failed.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • This identifies patterns in scope, team composition, timelines and customer feedback to reveal success or failure predictors.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • While people riding horses is a frequent trope for the genre, several moments set at dusk or against a cloudy sky deftly capture the movie’s melancholic mood.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 2 May 2025
  • Worries about Trump’s tariffs Under overcast skies in Taipei, about 2,500 Taiwanese union members began a march at the presidential office, representing sectors from fisheries to telecommunications.
    Thomas Adamson, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • The Supreme Court in recent decades narrowed the reach of Humphrey's Executor but stopped short of overruling it.
    John Kruzel, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Finally, many Republican states are already acting to limit the reach of Medicaid—by using new work requirements or, as NPR reported last week, in Arkansas people have been removed from the program without being told.
    Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • For enterprise users, Canva has expanded its ambit to include access management, Secure Single Sign-On integrations, and bulk content creation tools like Magic Studio at Scale which auto-generates campaigns using data templates.
    Anisha Sircar, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The issue before us is whether his mere claim of extraordinary harm justifies this court's immediate review, which would essentially remove the legal issues from the district court's ambit before its proceedings have concluded.
    DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS, arkansasonline.com, 17 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Mosaic products are easily accessible and offered in a wide range of retail and hobby formats.
    Tyler Holzhammer, New York Times, 3 May 2025
  • Trump has disrupted decades of American trade policies, including with key security allies like Japan, by imposing big import taxes on a wide range of products.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 May 2025
Noun
  • Yet in our increasingly digital world, the tangible nature of oracle and tarot decks offers a rare form of material connection—something to hold, shuffle, and physically engage with outside the digital realm.
    Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Aimee used the medium of transmitting sound to establish a new realm of spirituality.
    Claire Hoffman, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • With this in mind, the startup costs listed below automatically assume that your website and domain are included.
    Rachel Wells, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Into the last decades of the twentieth century, the laws of war were almost exclusively the domain of military lawyers and humanitarians at the Red Cross.
    Colin Jones, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2025

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“Horizon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horizon. Accessed 6 May. 2025.

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