outward

Example Sentences

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Last year, Chinese outward direct investment rose 7.1% compared with a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Dwayne Johnson’s performance in “The Smashing Machine,” for all the film’s flaws, cleverly reconciled the dissonance between the outward images of masculine power and internal feelings of self-loathing.

From Salon • May 27, 2026

The rest of the star is blasted outward into space as an expanding cloud of extremely hot gas.

From Science Daily • May 27, 2026

The researchers used those data to determine whether each person would benefit more from turning the toes inward or outward, and whether a 5° or 10° adjustment would be best.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

As if being back here on this wretched road—the place he’d un-died—weren’t bad enough, ahead of them, Fernlight Forest stretched upward and outward, rich and leafy and gold-dappled green.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman