inward

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Over time, the two planets likely migrated inward together, moving closer to their star while maintaining their atmospheres and their unusual orbital arrangement.

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

Coltrane’s account of her inward quest is simultaneously proto-Afrofuturist, transcendental and totally human.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

In this zone, the combined gravitational effects of the two stars either fling planets out of the system or pull them inward until they are destroyed.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026

I recalled that inward sensation I had experienced: for I could recall it, with all its unspeakable strangeness.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë