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outward

[aut-werd] / ˈaʊt wərd /


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He said the Orange Order should use their outward route to Drumcree Church as their return route, rather than the Garvaghy Road.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

At that later stage, the black hole's feeding rate falls to about two percent of its Eddington limit, the point at which the outward pressure of radiation balances the inward pull of gravity.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

In much the same way, Fallingwater’s projecting trays of space, which step up and outward, are a poetic paraphrase of what lies below, the stepped cascade that is nature’s own staircase.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Meanwhile, “dark energy” seems to permeate every square inch of space, pushing outward and accelerating the universe’s expansion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Each splintered bar bent gracefully outward, like the petal of a chrysanthemum, and in the center of the empty cage lay one small golden feather.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng




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