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Everyone looked skyward as the jets passed by.
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Willow pointed out the sculpture’s windpipe, constructed out of twisted wood, which extends above the lungs skyward.
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Isadora Pennington, AJC.com, 1 May 2026
Sharp antennae point skyward as feathers of adornment.
—Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
And later, when water levels dropped, tectonics shifted, reefs grew, and the ice age locked away the planet’s water supplies into glaciers, and new faults thrust the land skyward to dry?
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The first four Atlas V Amazon Leo missions sent 27 of the broadband satellites skyward.
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Isadora Pennington, AJC.com, 1 May 2026
Sharp antennae point skyward as feathers of adornment.
—Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
And later, when water levels dropped, tectonics shifted, reefs grew, and the ice age locked away the planet’s water supplies into glaciers, and new faults thrust the land skyward to dry?
—Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026
The first four Atlas V Amazon Leo missions sent 27 of the broadband satellites skyward.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 28 Apr. 2026
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“Skyward.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skyward. Accessed 5 May. 2026.
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skyward
adverb
sky·ward
ˈskī-wərd 
1
: toward the sky
gaze skyward
2
: to a higher level
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