towards
A2Frequent NGSL-1UK /təˈwɔːdz/US /tɔːrdz/
Meaning
preposition
in the direction of somebody/something
“They were heading towards the German border.”
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“the green latin-american countries they are moving towards smaller families your yellow ones here or the Arabic countries and they get larger families but they no longer life but not larger families”
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