forwards

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Coleman was up against experienced and prolific forwards Paul McTiernan and Sean Flannery, but neither got a sniff against the raw but energetic youngster.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

“Europe certainly will become far more prominent as we move forwards in the next 12 to 18 months,” Olsen said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 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

Thus we are told ‘the one and only error of general principle which the historian can commit...is to read history not forwards, as it happened, but backwards.’

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton