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also onwards
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as in along
toward or at a point lying in advance in space or time
work on the project has been continuing onward at a steady pace
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In the past five years, the vaccination rate among US kindergartners has fallen from 95 percent—the target coverage rate to prevent infectious diseases from spreading onward in a community—to the range of 92 percent.
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Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2025
Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison, who probably bet his career on trading Dončić, was at the game from pregame warmups onward.
—Greg Beacham, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb. 2025
From 1815 onward, a Romantic form of nationalism that imagined the nation as a cultural homeland took deep roots in German-speaking parts of Europe.
—Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Mercury will supercharge our social lives from Jan. 27 onward, while Uranus (the planet of evolution) will awaken in the fields of Taurus on Jan. 30.
—Kyle Thomas, People.com, 26 Jan. 2025
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Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2025
Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison, who probably bet his career on trading Dončić, was at the game from pregame warmups onward.
—Greg Beacham, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb. 2025
From 1815 onward, a Romantic form of nationalism that imagined the nation as a cultural homeland took deep roots in German-speaking parts of Europe.
—Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Mercury will supercharge our social lives from Jan. 27 onward, while Uranus (the planet of evolution) will awaken in the fields of Taurus on Jan. 30.
—Kyle Thomas, People.com, 26 Jan. 2025
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“Onward.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/onward. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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