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Everyone looked skyward as the jets passed by.
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Finally, flying belly-forward with its nose pointed skyward, Starship plunged back into the atmosphere.
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Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2025
Glass-and-steel towers stretch skyward, rising above the surrounding rainforest and the Pacific Ocean beyond.
—Ann Abel, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Dipoto never leapt skyward after the last out of the World Series, as McGraw once did in this city.
—Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
Schaller showed a couple of photos that illustrate the craze, one of a couple getting married in a Wawa parking lot and another of a man at a new store in Florida, dropped to his knees with his arms raised skyward.
—Austin Hornbostel, The Tennessean, 12 Aug. 2025
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Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2025
Glass-and-steel towers stretch skyward, rising above the surrounding rainforest and the Pacific Ocean beyond.
—Ann Abel, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Dipoto never leapt skyward after the last out of the World Series, as McGraw once did in this city.
—Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
Schaller showed a couple of photos that illustrate the craze, one of a couple getting married in a Wawa parking lot and another of a man at a new store in Florida, dropped to his knees with his arms raised skyward.
—Austin Hornbostel, The Tennessean, 12 Aug. 2025
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“Skyward.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skyward. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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skyward
adverb
sky·ward
ˈskī-wərd 
1
: toward the sky
gaze skyward
2
: to a higher level
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