backwards

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When I was born, I had a traumatic birth — I was backwards, I had the cord around, I was hyperactive.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026

They started 2024 less competitively and fell backwards again.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

He published it at age 59, when his own adventures in nervous-system regulation allowed him to bend his formerly stiff body backwards into a plow pose.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

One subplot heavily relies on children’s nursery rhymes and playing them backwards to find hidden messages embedded in their melodies.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

As we saw in Chapter 2, this is nonsense, in that we have to read history both forwards and backwards.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton