Thesaurus results for HORIZONS

horizons

noun

plural of horizon

as in skylines

the space surrounding the earth They saw some birds just on the horizon. The couple drove off towards the horizon.

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as in dimensions

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 Although short-term volatility may be unsettling, investors with time horizons measured in years should be well-positioned to ride out the rough patches that inevitably occur along the way. — Daniel Kern, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026 And while Joanne is busy with all these parts of her new life, Morgan finds her own professional horizons also increasing. — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2026 Men split evenly between local-only political ambitions and broader horizons. — Emma Schroeder, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2026 Chips are products of an organizational culture—both within companies and between them—that encourages people to look beyond their own personal horizons. — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026 Speculators may play an important role in markets by contributing to liquidity, but success is measured over shorter time horizons and requires sophisticated risk management. — Aneri Jambusaria, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2026 Los Lances and Valdevaqueros offer wide horizons and plenty of open space. — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 18 Oct. 2026 Meanwhile, if anyone from Paul McCartney’s team happens to be reading this, please play him some Tinashe to broaden his horizons. — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026 This is an album full of stars, storms, and horizons, the depths of visible color vibrating in invisible air. — Sasha Geffen, Pitchfork, 8 Oct. 2026

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Noun

Overcast skies hung low over a nearby hillside in full autumn color.

— Kimberlee Kruesi, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
Temperatures will peak around 81 degrees and skies will be sunny, according to NWS Melbourne.

— Garfield Hylton, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of skies

Noun

The researchers also explored more exotic scenarios involving additional spatial dimensions and theories that extend beyond Einstein’s general relativity.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
North Carolina State University But the new robot can maneuver in three dimensions using a few elastic limbs and just two actuators.

— Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of dimensions

Noun

For the past 15 years, Ishmael Butler and his cast of collaborators have drifted further and further into the outer reaches, deconstructing and reassembling hip-hop, jazz, and kosmische conventions into sprawling, proggy rhapsodies.

— Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 23 Oct. 2026
But, in the past few years, Namibia has seen a lot of positive conservation momentum, with these northwest reaches acting as a bellwether.

— Samantha Falewée, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of reaches

Noun

Confining Employees To Rigid Roles As a business grows, team members with rigid, constrained scopes may stop working or supporting others outside their existing scope.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 15 Oct. 2026
These involve a cancer screening test, followed by a surgical procedure involving robotic scopes.

— Tara Molina, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of scopes

Noun

The current design conversation is reframing them as intentional styling tools, which should push manufacturers toward better fabrics, cleaner fits and broader color ranges.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026
To his point, expanding size ranges does involve investment in pattern-making, grading, sampling, production, and inventory planning.

— Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of ranges

Noun

The team also found that recombination was more likely between enzyme domains with similar DNA sequences, particularly within the same gene.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
More broadly, a meta-analysis of over 100 studies found that fear appeals reliably shift attitudes and behavior across health and other domains.

— Monique Mitchell Turner, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of domains

Noun

And even without the holodeck, genres are fluid things that often take from each other to tell stories within each other’s realms.

— Matthew Razak, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2026
The idea of treating Oregon on the same plane as some of the great fantasy realms from my youth like Narnia and Oz and Middle Earth was crazy to even think about.

— Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Oct. 2026

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