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sideways

[sahyd-weyz] / ˈsaɪdˌweɪz /


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The detector repeatedly records more baryons than antibaryons emerging sideways from the collisions, perpendicular to the direction of the incoming beams.

From Science Daily Aug. 16, 2026

The news came the way it always comes in my family, sideways, through a phone.

From Salon Aug. 5, 2026

"It's going to impact and its going to send up a huge plume of dust, maybe 50km into the air or more, and that's going to spread sideways over time," Bothwell said.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

Later tours reconfigured the chandelier’s choreography, hanging it on one fixed point to lower and lift up and down without the sideways travel — a much easier installation for touring.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Shannon wrote, and she sent a picture of palm trees below bending over sideways in the wind.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz




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