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horizonless

[huh-rahy-zuhn-lis]

adjective

  1. lacking or without a horizon.

  2. without hope; hopeless.



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“Why threaten horizonless Russia with nuclear weapons when you sit on a small island?”

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They are noticers despite the days of horizonless work.

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Looking out from the ship's deck, a person sees a horizonless cavity—unless it is dotted by needles of light spouting from the headlamps of a couple of distant human beings at work—an otherworldly scene not unlike being on the moon.

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In California, where Steyer lives in Sea Cliff, an ultraexclusive San Francisco neighborhood with a horizonless view of the Pacific, they’ve banned single-use plastic grocery bags.

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In the opening section, we find ourselves literally at sea in a clip from Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha’s 1967 “Entranced Earth,” showing, in aerial view, a swelling, glittering, apparently horizonless Atlantic Ocean.

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