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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 horizon
This is a month to expand your horizons in the most literal sense, soaking up new places, new knowledge, and new ways of thinking about what's possible for you.
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Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Apr. 2026
Dreaming of expanding your horizons?
—Usa Today, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026
Full circular passport requirements, encompassing complete lifecycle data, follow on a longer horizon.
—Jessica Binns, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2026
Expanding students’ horizons and advancing tolerance by exposing them to religious perspectives is a good intention.
—Charles J. Russo, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2026
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Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Apr. 2026
Dreaming of expanding your horizons?
—Usa Today, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026
Full circular passport requirements, encompassing complete lifecycle data, follow on a longer horizon.
—Jessica Binns, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2026
Expanding students’ horizons and advancing tolerance by exposing them to religious perspectives is a good intention.
—Charles J. Russo, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for horizon
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horizon
Noun
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The Dubai skyline, including the Burj Khalifa skyscraper, center, in the United Arab Emirates.—
Steve Kopack,
NBC news,
28 Apr. 2026
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Here, however, Swift would have to go without the New York skyline in the wedding photos.—
Anne Kadet,
Curbed,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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This also highlights the importance of basic cyber hygiene like unique passwords and MFA, so that when breaches happen, the scope of impact on your own personal data is contained.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
25 Apr. 2026
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There’s also Title Wave Books in Anchorage, which houses one of the most extensive collections of Indigenous American literature in the country, and Nā Mea Hawai'i, whose collection tightens its scope to Hawaiian culture and history.—
Kat Chen,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Residents fled as ash fell and smoke darkened the sky, many leaving with little notice as flames approached homes and neighborhoods.—
Corey Schmidt,
Sacbee.com,
30 Apr. 2026
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With a heaping helping of Western style (and an even bigger patio) Far Out creates an inviting, casual-cool environment that encourages another round of stories (and cocktails) under the Texas sky.—
Nathanael Gassett,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
30 Apr. 2026
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Holding a clutch with one or both hands also provides a polite, socially acceptable reason not to shake every hand within reach.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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Its content arm is similarly underdeveloped relative to the company’s large reach.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
27 Apr. 2026
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Yet the kind of misrepresentations experienced by Tkachuk and Harris aren’t within the ambit of intimate imagery laws.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
9 Mar. 2026
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When infused with the power of a rising hegemon, those men were capable of actions that expanded their empire’s ambit.—
Alfred McCoy,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
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Atlanta shot 13-of-42 from 3-point range in Game 5 at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
29 Apr. 2026
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Given the importance of preserving relations with the FCC, which has a say over a range of local station matters and must approve any mergers involving the transfer of broadcast licenses, LeGeyt has deliberately avoided a direct clash with his Washington counterpart.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
29 Apr. 2026
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Space is the massive, ever-expanding realm beyond Earth’s atmosphere, spanning more than 93 billion light-years in the observable universe.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Apr. 2026
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Former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin got his feet wet in the NFL media realm and made a bold prediction about Aaron Rodgers' future in the league.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
27 Apr. 2026
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Some may even be in the public domain and therefore available from multiple companies to package creatively, although publishers, along with authors and their estates, support long terms of copyright, and further extensions thereof, because this protects the value of the backlist.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
24 Apr. 2026
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In this limbo state, you’re technically admitted to the hospital, but still located in the physical domain of the ER.—
Elisabeth Rosenthal,
Miami Herald,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Horizon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horizon. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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