outward

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The rest of the star is blasted outward into space as an expanding cloud of extremely hot gas.

From Science Daily • May 27, 2026

Dwayne Johnson’s performance in “The Smashing Machine,” for all the film’s flaws, cleverly reconciled the dissonance between the outward images of masculine power and internal feelings of self-loathing.

From Salon • May 27, 2026

Underlying all that is the fragile ego of a state whose outward brassiness is often a cover for an inferiority complex stoked by its glittering neighbor.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

It looks like an oddly shaped boat with an arm of floaties extending outward to one end of the rocky shore.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

While important as emotional safety valves, such expressions did nothing to change outward circumstances and the pressure for change escalated.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson