westward

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The market is due to see a rolling supply disruption unfolding “sequentially rather than simultaneously” — moving westward, “dictated by shipping times and buffered unevenly by regional inventories.”

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

The Saudis have a pipeline system with a capacity of about seven million barrels a day that goes westward from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea.

From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026

In the North Atlantic, the region has spread eastward beyond the northern coast of South America and westward into much of the Gulf.

From Science Daily • Dec. 25, 2025

Braiding memoir, pop science and true crime, Fraser delivers a remarkable, persuasive narrative about how good-old-fashioned American values — manufacturing might, westward expansion, cheap leaded gas — turned into a literally toxic combination.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

Turning westward they came at length to a door in the rearward wall of the sixth circle.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien