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With a cavitating roar, the CrossWave stood up on its tail, throwing Roz backward, her arms wrapped around my neck in a rear naked chokehold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
You can’t go backward; you have to move forward.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
But multiple experts say influencers promoting cortisol testing are looking at the problem backward.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026
When the researchers used these older deposits rather than the younger Ediacaran Weng'an site as constraints, the estimated origin of animals moved backward by about 200 million years.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Eugene Hammond was on the porch, in a windowpane plaid suit and his cap on backward with goggles pushed up.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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