outward looking
idiom
: thinking about other people or places
The country has become more outward looking in its economic policies.
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Still, fractured Lebanon is fundamentally an outward looking nation.
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Matt Bradley, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
To position himself in this way—cautious toward the United States but not passive, flexible but ideologically impregnable, self-reliant but outward looking—will require a grace akin to walking a tightrope.
—Christopher K. Johnson, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2019
And that, for me, is almost the creative part of my brain that just is open and absorbent and also outward looking and spontaneous.
—Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2020
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Matt Bradley, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
To position himself in this way—cautious toward the United States but not passive, flexible but ideologically impregnable, self-reliant but outward looking—will require a grace akin to walking a tightrope.
—Christopher K. Johnson, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2019
And that, for me, is almost the creative part of my brain that just is open and absorbent and also outward looking and spontaneous.
—Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2020
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“Outward looking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outward%20looking. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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