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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
Jupiter enters your 9th House of Travel and Learning, expanding horizons and refreshing your sense of meaning.
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Tarot.com,
Chicago Tribune,
30 June 2026
Always have the balance of time horizons, now and in the future.
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Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
Indeed, for Voegtlin, the future of the species might depend on man’s willingness to broaden his horizons with respect to meat.
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David Merritt Johns,
The Atlantic,
27 June 2026
Still, gold’s stabilizing role can be especially useful for investors with shorter time horizons, where protecting against inflation and market volatility becomes more important.
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Faith Wakefield,
USA Today,
26 June 2026
Travel will expand your horizons.
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Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
25 June 2026
Ahead, designers share their favorite strategies for making the most of the vertical space in your room and expanding your design horizons, one inch at a time.
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Alyssa Longobucco,
Architectural Digest,
25 June 2026
That discipline extends to how Nasdaq allocates capital across time horizons.
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Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
24 June 2026
Fudd explained why in an exclusive interview with Fortune’s Emma Hinchliffe, focusing on the opportunities to play abroad and broaden her horizons.
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Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
19 June 2026
Tarot.com,
Chicago Tribune,
30 June 2026
Always have the balance of time horizons, now and in the future.
—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
Indeed, for Voegtlin, the future of the species might depend on man’s willingness to broaden his horizons with respect to meat.
—
David Merritt Johns,
The Atlantic,
27 June 2026
Still, gold’s stabilizing role can be especially useful for investors with shorter time horizons, where protecting against inflation and market volatility becomes more important.
—
Faith Wakefield,
USA Today,
26 June 2026
Travel will expand your horizons.
—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
25 June 2026
Ahead, designers share their favorite strategies for making the most of the vertical space in your room and expanding your design horizons, one inch at a time.
—
Alyssa Longobucco,
Architectural Digest,
25 June 2026
That discipline extends to how Nasdaq allocates capital across time horizons.
—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
24 June 2026
Fudd explained why in an exclusive interview with Fortune’s Emma Hinchliffe, focusing on the opportunities to play abroad and broaden her horizons.
—
Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
19 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horizons
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Many Americans didn’t let the sweltering heat or stormy skies stop their party.
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Then as skies darkened, fireworks began lighting the skies everywhere.
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Even more than Stinnerbom’s cardamom bun — which some praise as the best in Oslo — the more elemental cinnamon notes, enhanced with lemon zest and juice, allow the sourdough’s multifaceted dimensions to come through.
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Unlike conventional porous carbons, which interact only weakly with polysulfides, COFs possess periodically arranged pores whose dimensions, chemical environments, and electronic characteristics can be programmed by design.
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This year, as the country celebrates the document that Adams and Jefferson helped create, American providentialism is still being championed in the highest reaches of government.
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Anglers may be pleased with the smallmouth bass population in the upper reaches of the river or the largemouth bass and catfish in the lower reaches.
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Avian scopes are typically below 20, and so are the scopes for fishes.
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Permissions are increasingly derived at runtime from natural-language intent in ways that OAuth scopes were never designed to govern.
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Shah adds that many women feel their best when ferritin levels are at least between 40 and 70 ng/ml for optimal energy and hair health, even if lab ranges suggest lower levels are ‘normal’.
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No other existing or planned telescope can observe through multiple ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum simultaneously on such short notice.
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Instead of concentrating combat capability aboard a small number of heavily armed warships, the government says the new vessels will support a hybrid fleet in which crewed ships coordinate networks of autonomous systems across multiple domains.
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Across eight domains of preparedness, respondents gave their highest scores to Community.
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What if Baahubali dies and has to go through the 14 realms of the afterlife in Indian mythology?
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The new wrinkle is that the big platforms want to draft off what makes top creators successful in their digital-native realms.
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“Horizons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horizons. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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