horizons

noun

plural of horizon
1
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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2
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 Zdena expands her horizons beyond the little town and may even find new happiness. — Carole Horst, Variety, 4 July 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 Jupiter enters your 9th House of Travel and Learning, expanding horizons and refreshing your sense of meaning. — Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2026 Jupiter in Leo presents you with opportunities for travel, education, publishing and experiences that broaden your horizons. — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026 The rise of the Roman empire across the Mediterranean widened the elite’s horizons for travel but narrowed their personal ambitions, and made romantic love a worthy subject for epic literature. — Literary Hub, 30 June 2026 In my experience, mid-market employers in the 75 to 500 employee range tend to use these structures to gain transparency into claims data, control plan design and stabilize costs over multiyear horizons. — Jennifer Schaefer, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026 For 250 years, American innovation has repeatedly expanded the nation’s horizons. — Adam Stone, USA Today, 3 July 2026 Coastal beaches, riverbanks, hilltop miradors and elevated parks with unobstructed west-northwest horizons will become prime real estate for one of Europe's most anticipated astronomical events. — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 5 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horizons
  1. skies
  2. dimensions
  3. reaches
  4. scopes
  5. ranges
  6. domains
  7. realms
Noun
  • Many Americans didn’t let the sweltering heat or stormy skies stop their party.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 5 July 2026
  • Then as skies darkened, fireworks began lighting the skies everywhere.
    — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 July 2026
Definition of skies
Noun
  • 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.
    — Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
  • 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.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 4 July 2026
Definition of dimensions
Noun
  • 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.
    — Jim Rasenberger, The Atlantic, 4 July 2026
  • 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.
    — Josh Laskin, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2026
Definition of reaches
Noun
  • Avian scopes are typically below 20, and so are the scopes for fishes.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • Permissions are increasingly derived at runtime from natural-language intent in ways that OAuth scopes were never designed to govern.
    — Harsh Singhal, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
Definition of scopes
Noun
  • 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’.
    — Tatiana Dias, Vogue, 30 June 2026
  • No other existing or planned telescope can observe through multiple ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum simultaneously on such short notice.
    — Anna Y. Q. Ho, Scientific American, 29 June 2026
Definition of ranges
Noun
  • 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.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 30 June 2026
  • Across eight domains of preparedness, respondents gave their highest scores to Community.
    — Joseph Coughlin, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of domains
Noun
  • What if Baahubali dies and has to go through the 14 realms of the afterlife in Indian mythology?
    — Rafael Motamayor, IndieWire, 30 June 2026
  • The new wrinkle is that the big platforms want to draft off what makes top creators successful in their digital-native realms.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 27 June 2026
Definition of realms

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