Forward and Stayed

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Forward verb - To help the growth or development of.

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Stayed is an antonym for forward.

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Forward is an antonym for stayed in hold in abeyance topic.

Nearby Words: stay, staying, stayer

Their charge was to make sure the Creature Rulers stayed in hibernation and also to guard the Veil, making sure nothing came out and keeping the earth and its people ignorant that such things as "monsters" ever existed.Fast forward to the present day.

Source: Western Animation / Kaijudo
Fast forward several hundreds of years, and the colonists have several religions of their own (one deifying Helen Bjorg, who may or may not have been a Mad Scientist), while those who stayed behind remain Christians or Muslims (possibly others, but we don't see them).

Source: Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions

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