as in standing
rising straight up
a vertical cliff face
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Recent Examples of vertical
The base iPhone 17 could retain the vertical bump from the iPhone 16, but the Air, Pro, and Pro Max variants could get horizontal end-to-end bumps.
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PC Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
Audi is talking up the vertical frame where the grille usually sits, as a key design element.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2025
Perhaps Cleve is correct that the AI stack is wide enough, deep enough and varied enough to create opportunities for lots of different vertical and regional players.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2025
Each vessel is equipped with 32 vertical launch tubes for three types of anti-surface and land-attack cruise missiles, as well as 10 torpedo tubes.
—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
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PC Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
Audi is talking up the vertical frame where the grille usually sits, as a key design element.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2025
Perhaps Cleve is correct that the AI stack is wide enough, deep enough and varied enough to create opportunities for lots of different vertical and regional players.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2025
Each vessel is equipped with 32 vertical launch tubes for three types of anti-surface and land-attack cruise missiles, as well as 10 torpedo tubes.
—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for vertical
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vertical
Adjective
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Her son, Pax, 21, joined the audience in giving her a standing ovation following the film’s premiere.—
Eric Andersson,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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And scores of the world’s top auteurs came to compete with strong new titles — many of them instant Oscar contenders the moment the customary standing ovations wound down each night inside Venice’s Sala Grande cinema.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The narrow, strong currents flow quickly and perpendicular to the coastline.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
20 Aug. 2025
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With such aircraft, at slow speeds, the wing sticks out normally (perpendicular) to enable it to take off, land, and fly as normal.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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On the fateful day that inbound Soviet bombers filled the skies above America with godless communism, the horizontal Bomarc missiles would literally become erect, and fire vertically.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Aug. 2025
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The name of Fort Benning, for example, was suggested by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, an organization that sought to rewrite history textbooks and erect monuments that honored the Confederacy and downplayed slavery's centrality to the Civil War.—
Davis Winkie,
USA Today,
19 July 2025
Adjective
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Choose an upright cultivar and begin trimming it in early fall into a conical tree.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
5 Sep. 2025
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The Ferryman crams the Warren home with upright coffins filled with his former victims.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Vertical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vertical. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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