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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 horizons
Music is still burning strong inside me, and there are new creative horizons ahead.
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Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2025
Contemporary installations created in the 2000s, such as Helmets (Pieces of Sky) (2001), invite audiences to envision new horizons through direct participation.
—Robert Lang, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025
Music is still burning strong inside me, and there are new creative horizons ahead.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025
Without Mumme, the spread offense doesn’t spread nationwide and doesn’t allow creativity in offensive play-calling to expand to horizons never previously seen.
—Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Rather than simply making the games in English and attempting to find success solely in English-speaking regions, Shpirna broadened his horizons and opted to make the games international affairs.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
Major deals now feature 20-30 year funding horizons—extraordinary bets on technologies whose commercial viability five years from now remains uncertain.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2025
Expect to travel and expand your horizons.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 22 Oct. 2025
Additionally, the New Moon squares Jupiter in Cancer, expanding our sentimental and passionate horizons.
—Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 20 Oct. 2025
Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2025
Contemporary installations created in the 2000s, such as Helmets (Pieces of Sky) (2001), invite audiences to envision new horizons through direct participation.
—Robert Lang, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025
Music is still burning strong inside me, and there are new creative horizons ahead.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025
Without Mumme, the spread offense doesn’t spread nationwide and doesn’t allow creativity in offensive play-calling to expand to horizons never previously seen.
—Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Rather than simply making the games in English and attempting to find success solely in English-speaking regions, Shpirna broadened his horizons and opted to make the games international affairs.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
Major deals now feature 20-30 year funding horizons—extraordinary bets on technologies whose commercial viability five years from now remains uncertain.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2025
Expect to travel and expand your horizons.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 22 Oct. 2025
Additionally, the New Moon squares Jupiter in Cancer, expanding our sentimental and passionate horizons.
—Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 20 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horizons
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Formed by rolling up sheets of atoms, these hollow tubes exhibit unique behaviors distinct from bulk materials due to their nanoscale dimensions.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Nov. 2025
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Hans Audric Estialbo, head of Fearfolks and producer on the film, emphasizes the spiritual dimensions of the story.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Air traffic controllers tasked with managing aircraft movements on runways and in the skies are working without pay during the shutdown, leading to more controllers calling in sick and triggering short staff warnings from the FAA.—
Alysa Guffey,
IndyStar,
6 Nov. 2025
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Duffy warned on Tuesday that there could be chaos in the skies if the shutdown drags on long enough for air traffic controllers to miss their second full paycheck next week.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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States in the upper and lower reaches of the basin have struggled for two years to find a workable agreement and failed.—
Austin Corona,
AZCentral.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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Tickets are now on sale for the 2026 South Beach Wine & Food Festival, with dining and wine events stretching from Fort Lauderdale to the furthest reaches of South Miami-Dade.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
4 Nov. 2025
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The gem allows enthusiasts to peer through the observatory’s telescope for an intimate look at the lunar rise or set up their own scopes on the park’s flat viewing areas.—
Dana Sauchelli,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Nov. 2025
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Reflecting different creative approaches and scopes of production.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The research team underlined that the future work will explore other co-intercalants and optimize electrolytes for even wider temperature ranges.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Nov. 2025
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Pooling of sea water is possible around high tide at beach and harbor areas that is uncommon with normal tidal ranges.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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But research increasingly shows that the aftereffects of disasters last longer, and extend to more domains of our lives, than official death tolls can capture.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
11 Nov. 2025
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Researchers have found a winner's curse in many other domains.—
Greg Rosalsky,
NPR,
11 Nov. 2025
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Does this explain, perhaps, why Hopkins would then traffic back and forth between the grand realms of British classical theatre and the badlands of the movies, over the years, with an ease denied even to Olivier?—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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Jack is curious about life’s mysteries and wants to learn about the elements that make up all the realms.—
Lisa Stardust,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Horizons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horizons. Accessed 19 Nov. 2025.
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