horizontal

as in flat
parallel to the ground She reclined the chair to a horizontal position. The line on the graph was nearly horizontal, indicating little growth over the fiscal year.

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Recent Examples of horizontal The tricolor has horizontal stripes of green, white, and black, with three red stars down the center stripe, which in the 1930s represented the three main states of Aleppo, Damascus, and Deir Ezzor. Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2025 The chitter, with rare horizontal movement, showed tantalizing potential. Dennis Lin, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025 Toward the end of the book, the pages go horizontal, to accommodate a chapter presented in the form of a seventy-five-page PowerPoint. Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2025 Some of the key graphics include diamond motifs, horizontal stripes, four-directional crosses placed within each diamond and zig-zag patterns reminiscent of the desert mountain landscapes. Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 8 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for horizontal
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  • Chief executives like Amazon’s Andy Jassy and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg have championed flatter organizational structures in an effort to reduce bureaucracy and spark innovation.
    Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Even though homeowners’ solar panels helped keep demand for electricity flat for 20 years, the three utilities’ spending on transmission and distribution infrastructure had risen by 300%, McCann found.
    Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025

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“Horizontal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horizontal. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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