: southward direction or part
sail to the southward
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Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
Newsom’s Delta Conveyance Project proposes to build two new intakes on both sides of the small community of Hood and transport the supply 150 feet underground southward more than 30 miles to the California Aqueduct and the State Water Project.
—Tom Philp, Mercury News, 23 May 2025
Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 20 May 2025
Timing However, part of what made southward expansion palatable was the concept that having MLS soccer in their cities represented a legitimate major league sports experience.
—Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
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If the magnetic field in the solar wind points southward, a geomagnetic storm may be triggered — resulting in auroras at mid to high latitudes.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
Newsom’s Delta Conveyance Project proposes to build two new intakes on both sides of the small community of Hood and transport the supply 150 feet underground southward more than 30 miles to the California Aqueduct and the State Water Project.
—Tom Philp, Mercury News, 23 May 2025
Noun
The orientation of the magnetic field will either be a northward or southward Bz, or a combination of the two, and that magnetic orientation determines how strongly the incoming solar storm will interact with Earth's magnetic field.
—Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 20 May 2025
Timing However, part of what made southward expansion palatable was the concept that having MLS soccer in their cities represented a legitimate major league sports experience.
—Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
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“Southward.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/southward. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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