inward

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A 2024 study in Bioengineering, for example, found that inward and outward foot rotation affected different peaks of knee loading, while not significantly increasing ankle joint moments in the group studied.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

Here, she turns that same archival rigor inward on her own family’s immigrant story, as unsparing as it is tender.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

You want the straight side of each triangle to face outward while both triangles’ angled sides face inward toward each other.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026

Mean curvature captures how the surface bends in space, indicating whether it curves inward or outward and by how much.

From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026

Months of pampering and the ridicule of my cousins had turned me inward.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez