: southward direction or part
sail to the southward
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Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2025
Once the ship is in the open waters of the Atlantic, just one of the tugs will be needed to tow it slowly southward.
—Isabelle Taft, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Matt Slater, The Athletic, 4 Feb. 2025
Stone ridges extend like tendons, knuckles, and fingers from the northern border of the borough southward; these discouraged the construction of east-west roads and make the Bronx difficult to cross from east to west even today.
—CBS News, 24 Jan. 2025
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Adverb or adjective
Other parts of the central and eastern U.S. have also seen a substantial warm-up, though more on the order of 20 to 30 degrees F.
Last week’s big freeze came courtesy of an air mass moving southward from Canada, bringing with it extreme cold and high winds.
—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2025
Once the ship is in the open waters of the Atlantic, just one of the tugs will be needed to tow it slowly southward.
—Isabelle Taft, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
But something else is accelerating that shift southwards, something external.
—Matt Slater, The Athletic, 4 Feb. 2025
Stone ridges extend like tendons, knuckles, and fingers from the northern border of the borough southward; these discouraged the construction of east-west roads and make the Bronx difficult to cross from east to west even today.
—CBS News, 24 Jan. 2025
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“Southward.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/southward. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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