: eastward direction or part
sail to the eastward
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Phil Helsel, NBC news, 13 Oct. 2025
Relief from this heat will begin late this weekend as a strong front pushes eastward across the north-central United States.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
Doyle Rice, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
Same mechanism, different outcomes Until now, scientists thought Jupiter’s eastward and Neptune’s westward winds were caused by completely different processes.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2025
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Lokman Vural Elibol / Anadolu via Getty Images The nor’easter is expected to move eastward out over the Atlantic Ocean by Tuesday, leading to much calmer weather.
—Phil Helsel, NBC news, 13 Oct. 2025
Relief from this heat will begin late this weekend as a strong front pushes eastward across the north-central United States.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
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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
Same mechanism, different outcomes Until now, scientists thought Jupiter’s eastward and Neptune’s westward winds were caused by completely different processes.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2025
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“Eastward.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eastward. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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