as in standing
rising straight up
a vertical cliff face
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Recent Examples of vertical
Last month, the electric vertical take-off and landing (eVOTL) vehicles were involved in a collision in the sky during a rehearsal for an airshow in northeastern China.
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Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
New Shepard's first stage came back to Earth for a vertical, powered landing about 8 minutes after launch, and the autonomous vehicle's capsule followed suit several minutes later, touching down under parachutes in the Texas desert.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
Options trade With an IV Rank of 74%, options are expensive, making vertical call spreads attractive to reduce premium outlay and improve our risk to reward.
—Tony Zhang, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025
Use the vertical space in a small bedroom to get more storage and make the room feel larger.
—Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
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Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
New Shepard's first stage came back to Earth for a vertical, powered landing about 8 minutes after launch, and the autonomous vehicle's capsule followed suit several minutes later, touching down under parachutes in the Texas desert.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
Options trade With an IV Rank of 74%, options are expensive, making vertical call spreads attractive to reduce premium outlay and improve our risk to reward.
—Tony Zhang, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025
Use the vertical space in a small bedroom to get more storage and make the room feel larger.
—Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vertical
Adjective
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The theater gave him a standing ovation.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Oct. 2025
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The second clip showed Princess Kate getting a standing ovation at the Wimbledon Tennis Championship in London in July 2024 during only her second public appearance after starting chemotherapy for cancer that February.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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If the silica is perpendicular, photons arrive together.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Oct. 2025
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The narrow, strong currents flow quickly and perpendicular to the coastline.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Many use social media to call for an end to the violence, then erect memorials at the site of the shooting.—
David Clarey,
jsonline.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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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
Adjective
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Studies show that angling yourself upright during sleep can help combat a number of related issues—including sleep apnea, acid reflux, lower back pain, and snoring.—
Nashia Baker,
Architectural Digest,
10 Oct. 2025
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In this way, the robot’s system zero has learned by trial and error to walk and stay upright with high accuracy.—
Billy Perrigo,
Time,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Vertical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vertical. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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