: eastward direction or part
sail to the eastward
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Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
Vessel-tracking data suggests the Harmony network forms an arc stretching from Murmansk eastward to Novaya Zemlya and north to Franz Josef Land, effectively a tripwire guarding the Northern Fleet’s principal bases.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Gottschalck said that warmer-than-normal temperatures are most likely for California, the southern Great Basin, the southern Rockies, the Southwest eastward to Texas, the Southeast and the coastal mid-Atlantic.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
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Adverb or adjective
The shadowing stopped once both had departed the PMZ eastward.
—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
Vessel-tracking data suggests the Harmony network forms an arc stretching from Murmansk eastward to Novaya Zemlya and north to Franz Josef Land, effectively a tripwire guarding the Northern Fleet’s principal bases.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
Conditions are expected to improve by Sunday as the cold front responsible for the severe weather pushed eastwards.
—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Gottschalck said that warmer-than-normal temperatures are most likely for California, the southern Great Basin, the southern Rockies, the Southwest eastward to Texas, the Southeast and the coastal mid-Atlantic.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
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“Eastward.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eastward. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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