"upwards" in the adverb sense
1. up, upwards, upward, upwardly
spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position
"look up!"
"the music surged up"
"the fragments flew upwards"
"prices soared upwards"
"upwardly mobile"
2. up, upwards, upward
to a later time
"they moved the meeting date up"
"from childhood upward"
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