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adj. - Moving in the direction of a position ahead adv. - Progressing in time or order or degree.

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  • From its title onward, "Heartland" - a collaboration between the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago and the
  • And the star to guide us onward is now gleaming o'er the steep;
  • And at every turn, driving Glyver irresistibly onward, is his deadly rival: the poet-criminal Phoebus Rainsford Daunt.
  • In fact, the rate of increase from September onward is the fastest rate of change on record, either upwards or downwards.
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