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behind
adverb as in in a position further back; following
Strong match
adverb as in in debt; late
Weak matches
backward, behind schedule, behind time, behindhand, belated, delayed, dilatory, have to play catch up, in arrears, overdue, sluggish, tardy
noun as in buttocks
preposition as in being the reason for
Strong match
Weak matches
at the bottom of, concerning the circumstances, initiating, instigating, responsible for
preposition as in in support
Strong matches
Weak matches
Example Sentences
He produced 10 aces to Sinner’s two and won more than 80% of the points behind his first serve.
He fell behind in the count 0-2 against Toronto reliever Louis Varland, as the crowd of 47,399 at Yankee Stadium began mentally rehearsing the chorus of boos that was one strike away.
Hundreds of lawsuits linking acetaminophen to autism or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder have been filed, though a federal judge in 2023 ruled that the scientific evidence behind the claims was unreliable.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said during an appearance before a Senate committee last month that the FDA was examining the science behind mifepristone and collecting “new data.”
At appropriate points, a model of the annex and vitrines with correspondence related to the Frank family’s U.S. immigration attempts and other artifacts are briefly illuminated—but behind viewers, so easy to miss.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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