groundward
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The sensors actually detect the neutrons created in the upper atmosphere when high-speed particles slam into the nuclei of atoms of gases, knocking them apart and sending the neutrons groundward.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 6, 2012
From a transmitting antenna on one wing, radio waves are bounced groundward, caught on the rebound by a receiving antenna on the other wing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Try as he might, the plane was sagging groundward.
From Our Pilots in the Air by William Perry Brown
Janice requested, holding them out with one hand, while her other tendered a Spanish milled dollar, her eyes dropped groundward, as if to hide something.
From Janice Meredith by Paul Leicester Ford
Their works drop groundward, but themselves, I know, Reach many a time a heaven that’s shut to me, Enter and take their place there sure enough, Tho’ they come back and cannot tell the world.
From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry
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