: southward direction or part
sail to the southward
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Alexander Smith, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2024
Biologists there also believe these cougars are working their way southward and eastward from Wyoming and South Dakota.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 15 Feb. 2024
The bad news is another surge of frigid arctic air expected to plunge southward from Canada by week's end.
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2024
Israel had previously ordered civilians in Gaza to move southward as its forces targeted Hamas operatives in the north.
—Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
Israel has repeatedly ordered civilian evacuations, beginning in northern Gaza and working its way southward, displacing many people multiple times and steadily forcing them into more crowded spaces.
—Vivian Yee, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
The best odds of a dusting or light coating mainly on grass are west of Interstate 95--especially west of Route 15, which runs from Frederick southward through Leesburg to Haymarket--as lows reach the low and mid-30s (but remain mostly above freezing).
—Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
Conditions have been rough along the Atlantic Coast with a couple of big storms causing high tides and windy conditions from Maine southward in January and February.
—USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2024
Over the past few days, extremely cold Arctic air and severe winter weather have swept southward into much of the U.S., breaking daily low temperature records from Montana to Texas.
—Mathew Barlow, The Conversation, 17 Jan. 2024
Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 2 Feb. 2024
The Israeli war plan called for an initial mass ground invasion of the northern Gaza Strip, followed by a southward push into the territory’s central regions and the city of Khan Yunis, just north of Rafah.
—Neri Zilber, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Feb. 2024
Its range expansion southward was driven by shifting wind patterns and ocean currents that send massive amounts of sargassum into the western Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
—The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2024
Impacts Flooding: There is a moderate to high risk of flash flooding from San Francisco southward.
—Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2024
Now the city hopes to extend the pedestrian-first aesthetic southward, connecting the Flatiron District to Union Square through a series of complicated block-by-block designs that weave together two-way bike flow, local vehicle traffic, and two-legged multitudes.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 12 Dec. 2023
Looks like about 1 to 3 from downtown southward and 2 to 4 north.
—Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024
The southward flow—reminiscent of the Nakba, when some seven hundred and fifty thousand Palestinians were displaced in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war—has doubled the population of Khan Younis and tripled that of Rafah, putting enormous pressure on cities that were struggling even prior to October 7th.
—Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2023
El Niño’s relative warmth can affect atmospheric circulation along the equator and nudge a jet stream that normally aims for the Pacific Northwest southward, leaving that region drier and the Southeast wetter.
—Dennis Romero, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2023
Adverb or adjective
About 80% of the population, or 1.9 million people, has been forced to flee their homes, according to the U.N., some up to half a dozen times because of the Israeli military push southward.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2024
Biologists there also believe these cougars are working their way southward and eastward from Wyoming and South Dakota.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 15 Feb. 2024
The bad news is another surge of frigid arctic air expected to plunge southward from Canada by week's end.
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2024
Israel had previously ordered civilians in Gaza to move southward as its forces targeted Hamas operatives in the north.
—Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
Israel has repeatedly ordered civilian evacuations, beginning in northern Gaza and working its way southward, displacing many people multiple times and steadily forcing them into more crowded spaces.
—Vivian Yee, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
The best odds of a dusting or light coating mainly on grass are west of Interstate 95--especially west of Route 15, which runs from Frederick southward through Leesburg to Haymarket--as lows reach the low and mid-30s (but remain mostly above freezing).
—Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
Conditions have been rough along the Atlantic Coast with a couple of big storms causing high tides and windy conditions from Maine southward in January and February.
—USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2024
Over the past few days, extremely cold Arctic air and severe winter weather have swept southward into much of the U.S., breaking daily low temperature records from Montana to Texas.
—Mathew Barlow, The Conversation, 17 Jan. 2024
Noun
While the storm system will impact northern California first (including the Bay Area and Big Sur coast) beginning on Saturday afternoon, the worst of the flooding is expected to be Santa Barbara and southward.
—Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 2 Feb. 2024
The Israeli war plan called for an initial mass ground invasion of the northern Gaza Strip, followed by a southward push into the territory’s central regions and the city of Khan Yunis, just north of Rafah.
—Neri Zilber, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Feb. 2024
Its range expansion southward was driven by shifting wind patterns and ocean currents that send massive amounts of sargassum into the western Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
—The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2024
Impacts Flooding: There is a moderate to high risk of flash flooding from San Francisco southward.
—Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2024
Now the city hopes to extend the pedestrian-first aesthetic southward, connecting the Flatiron District to Union Square through a series of complicated block-by-block designs that weave together two-way bike flow, local vehicle traffic, and two-legged multitudes.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 12 Dec. 2023
Looks like about 1 to 3 from downtown southward and 2 to 4 north.
—Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024
The southward flow—reminiscent of the Nakba, when some seven hundred and fifty thousand Palestinians were displaced in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war—has doubled the population of Khan Younis and tripled that of Rafah, putting enormous pressure on cities that were struggling even prior to October 7th.
—Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2023
El Niño’s relative warmth can affect atmospheric circulation along the equator and nudge a jet stream that normally aims for the Pacific Northwest southward, leaving that region drier and the Southeast wetter.
—Dennis Romero, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2023
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“Southward.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/southward. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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