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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
Part of what makes portfolio management really hard is that your life is going to change a lot over the course of time horizons.
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Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
Over the most common business planning horizons, two to three years, productivity will likely be just a little better than the long run average of two percent.
—Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
By predicting the future outcomes and expected rewards of these sequences, the robot can select actions that are more likely to succeed over longer horizons.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
Miami Beach, Key Biscayne and Fort Lauderdale offer ceremony locations with natural drama built in—sunset skies, ocean backdrops and open horizons.
—Anton Lucanus, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
The accelerating Information Revolution is reshaping the American corporate landscape, opening new horizons for scientific discovery, threatening millions of jobs, and raising questions about the future of humanity in an age of intelligent machines.
—Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026
Arnold’s own criticism often focussed on expanding horizons and recovering unknown authors, from the moralist Joseph Joubert to the diarist Eugénie de Guérin.
—Colton Valentine, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
Each operates under different incentives, constraints, and time horizons.
—Kara Hurst, Time, 23 Jan. 2026
But first and foremost, some good rest and looking into new horizons.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 4 Jan. 2026
Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
Over the most common business planning horizons, two to three years, productivity will likely be just a little better than the long run average of two percent.
—Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
By predicting the future outcomes and expected rewards of these sequences, the robot can select actions that are more likely to succeed over longer horizons.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
Miami Beach, Key Biscayne and Fort Lauderdale offer ceremony locations with natural drama built in—sunset skies, ocean backdrops and open horizons.
—Anton Lucanus, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
The accelerating Information Revolution is reshaping the American corporate landscape, opening new horizons for scientific discovery, threatening millions of jobs, and raising questions about the future of humanity in an age of intelligent machines.
—Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026
Arnold’s own criticism often focussed on expanding horizons and recovering unknown authors, from the moralist Joseph Joubert to the diarist Eugénie de Guérin.
—Colton Valentine, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
Each operates under different incentives, constraints, and time horizons.
—Kara Hurst, Time, 23 Jan. 2026
But first and foremost, some good rest and looking into new horizons.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 4 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horizons
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Across research, several core psychological dimensions show up in how people relate to work.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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Its dimensions were carefully calculated to fit the tunnels, bridges, and curves of the era, leaving no room for larger designs.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Jan. 2026
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Wishing you clear skies and wide eyes.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Freezing rain could linger into early Sunday evening, adding another light glaze overnight before skies clear Monday, when highs reach the upper 30s, followed by a drop to around 11 degrees Monday night.—
Evan Moore,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Jan. 2026
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The world is home to gigantic storms bigger than Australia, 100-mph winds pummeling its northern reaches and a rocky moon named Io orbiting it that is notoriously riddled with lava-spewing volcanoes.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
5 Feb. 2026
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The endangered species migrates each summer from Mexico into the southernmost reaches of the United States.—
Susan Montoya Bryan,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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First focal plane scopes with MRAD reticles rule the roost in PRS and other field match series.—
John B. Snow,
Outdoor Life,
15 Jan. 2026
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One white general contractor controls both major scopes of work.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
12 Jan. 2026
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The difference in low- and high-end ranges is vast in most southeast Michigan communities.—
Tanya Wildt,
Freep.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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That can include discovering new actors, assembling ensembles with a particular chemistry or managing large and complex casts across locations or age ranges.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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Moreover, sociology is one of the best empirical fields for interrogating the consequences of different values, for how ideas get built into institutions, for how social networks operate across domains.—
Wendy Nelson Espeland,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2026
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This pattern is visible across domains.—
Alejandro Reyes,
Washington Post,
3 Feb. 2026
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Grasping hands reach out in despair, deities wield tridents and divine lotus flowers symbolize the 16 levels of Brahma (higher realms).—
Vicky Smith,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Early slayers often originate between realms—people who have been near death and pulled back, or have the markings of potential vampires, or who are born at times of the year when the veil between worlds is thin.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Horizons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horizons. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
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