skyward
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On a balmy August day, six Lima antennas shaped like megaphones pointed skyward from poles on the edge of a field in a rural part of Ukraine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The result was a kind of secular transcendence, a communal experience in which everyone looks skyward, collectively transfixed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Thick clouds of red dust billow skyward as earthmovers cut roads through the Abujhmad hills of India's central Chhattisgarh state, the last holdout of a nearly 60-year insurgency that has cost 12,000 lives.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
Embassy staffers and dependents evacuating, airlines suspending service, eyes in Iran warily turning skyward for signs of an attack.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2026
The city was growing in all available directions, and where it abutted the lake, it grew skyward, sharply increasing the value of land within the Loop.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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