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  • adverb towards outer space

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  • adverb towards outer space

Etymologies

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space +‎ -ward

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Examples

  • Between victims being hoisted spaceward in reverse bungee jumps, weird optics suggesting repressed memories, father-son issues, white-Indian issues, Antietam, and a gift knife that LOOMS LARGE, the plot thickens into thin gruel.

    Michael Jones: Cowboys and Aliens Michael Jones 2011

  • Between victims being hoisted spaceward in reverse bungee jumps, weird optics suggesting repressed memories, father-son issues, white-Indian issues, Antietam, and a gift knife that LOOMS LARGE, the plot thickens into thin gruel.

    Michael Jones: Cowboys and Aliens Michael Jones 2011

  • Between victims being hoisted spaceward in reverse bungee jumps, weird optics suggesting repressed memories, father-son issues, white-Indian issues, Antietam, and a gift knife that LOOMS LARGE, the plot thickens into thin gruel.

    Michael Jones: Cowboys and Aliens Michael Jones 2011

  • During the daytime, the snowcover reflects a significant portion of incoming radiational energy skyward or spaceward.

    USHCN Minimum Temperature Trends « Climate Audit 2007

  • In the darkness that followed I looked spaceward to the unfamiliar stars of the southern hemisphere.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

  • In the darkness that followed I looked spaceward to the unfamiliar stars of the southern hemisphere.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

  • In the darkness that followed I looked spaceward to the unfamiliar stars of the southern hemisphere.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

  • In the darkness that followed I looked spaceward to the unfamiliar stars of the southern hemisphere.

    Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006

  • Then the rest of them could head spaceward, finding Aari and Acorna once more after many exciting but not very dangerous adventures, which would somehow, never mind the details, result in glory and adulation for himself.

    First Warning McCaffrey, Anne 2005

  • When the Saturn V soars spaceward on nearly four thousand tons of thrust, it signifies more than a triumph of technology.

    The Speculist: Remember This Day 2004

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