outward

Example Sentences

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Last year, Chinese outward direct investment rose 7.1% compared with a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 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

A 2024 study in Bioengineering, for example, found that inward and outward foot rotation affected different peaks of knee loading, while not significantly increasing ankle joint moments in the group studied.

From Science Daily • May 22, 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

Below, a blanket of puffy clouds spread outward in every direction.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown