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onwards

 adverb
     
on‧wards usually onward American English
1

from ... onwards

beginning at a particular time or age and continuing after that:
from the 1980s onwards
2 literary forwards:
He walked onwards to the head of the lake.
3

onwards and upwards

used to say that the development, increase, or progress of something continues:
With exports strong, the business is moving onwards and upwards.
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