inward

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Here, she turns that same archival rigor inward on her own family’s immigrant story, as unsparing as it is tender.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

This finding challenges previous assumptions and supports the idea that TOI-1130b formed much farther out before migrating inward.

From Science Daily • May 7, 2026

You want the straight side of each triangle to face outward while both triangles’ angled sides face inward toward each other.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026

To call him a good loser is simply untrue—though from what we can tell the bitterness was always directed inward.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

The boys dived under tables just as the double doors and the brick wall they were mounted to exploded inward, destroyed by the force of the giant, furry platypus beast barreling inside.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles