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outward-looking

Adjective

Meaning

outward-looking (comparative more outward-looking, superlative most outward-looking)

Looking towards or thinking about other people, places, or things, rather than towards or about oneself.

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Examples

Obama's NASA budget perfectly captures the difference between Kennedy's liberalism and Obama's. Kennedy's was an expansive, bold, outward-looking summons, Obama's is a constricted inward-looking call to retreat. Fifty years ago, Kennedy opened the New Frontier. Obama has just shut it. Charles Krauthammer

The Korean people have always been more outward-looking than their insecure leaders, and for centuries this was especially true of those in the northern part of the peninsula. Brian Reynolds Myers

Coloma emphasized that countries must have a shared responsibility for comprehensive security and should work for “a dynamic and outward-looking region in an increasingly integrated and interdependent world.” Source: Internet

My outward-looking research focus on East Africa has also led me to understand my own deep-rooted family history of expropriation, in the Americas and in Europe. Source: Internet

In an interview John Flansburgh said that the words "they might be giants" are just a very outward-looking forward thing which they liked. Source: Internet

It was, therefore, an outward-looking, international-minded port within the Persian Empire, and the historian's family could well have had contacts in countries under Persian rule, facilitating his travels and his researches. Source: Internet

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