outward

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Development first took hold closer to Center City, where demand was strongest, then moved outward in the 2010s into adjacent rowhouse neighborhoods, including Fishtown, as property values rose and more infill projects became financially viable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

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

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

Fingers burning, I stripped the hot skin off potatoes in silence, swallowing hurt and resentment with the same outward resignation that Gladys manifested.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago