forwards

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Replacement forwards Haidee Head and Christiana Balogun made their debuts in Italy, with nine of the 13 forwards that featured in the World Cup final unavailable.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

Funders, by contrast, dress up their investments as prepaid forwards and claim capital gains treatment, lowering their top federal tax rate to 23.8% while exempting foreign funders from U.S. taxes entirely.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

Although most true crab species use sideways locomotion, there are some groups that walk forwards, which raises some interesting questions.

From Science Daily • May 2, 2026

He described the relative speeds of pandemic-era development as like "interstellar travelling -- inside, China had leapt forwards while outside, global carmakers lagged".

From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026

She was evidently very pleased, for she kept running the skin backwards and forwards through her fingers and looking at it admiringly.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers