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Everyone looked skyward as the jets passed by.
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Fred turned his gaze from skyward to sideways, taking Lily in with those emerald eyes.
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Literary Hub, 9 July 2025
The career is headed skyward, but Wichita, or, this week, Fayetteville, Ark., is where his cleats are, and where his mind is, right?.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 7 June 2025
In the last several years, researchers have discovered that living beings contribute more to Earth’s clouds than expected thanks to gases from plants and plankton, and sea spray that propels microorganisms and proteins skyward.
—Max G. Levy, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
The probe was one of a pair of Venus atmospheric landers hurled skyward during their respective go-to-Venus launch windows.
—Leonard David, Space.com, 23 June 2025
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Literary Hub, 9 July 2025
The career is headed skyward, but Wichita, or, this week, Fayetteville, Ark., is where his cleats are, and where his mind is, right?.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 7 June 2025
In the last several years, researchers have discovered that living beings contribute more to Earth’s clouds than expected thanks to gases from plants and plankton, and sea spray that propels microorganisms and proteins skyward.
—Max G. Levy, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
The probe was one of a pair of Venus atmospheric landers hurled skyward during their respective go-to-Venus launch windows.
—Leonard David, Space.com, 23 June 2025
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“Skyward.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skyward. Accessed 16 Jul. 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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