in back of

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The Mavs were without rookie center Dereck Lively II, who injured his neck when Towns accidentally kneed him in back of the head in Game 3.

From Seattle Times • May 28, 2024

Nothing is remote here; to paraphrase Groucho Marx, if we were any closer, we’d be in back of them.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2023

“We are putting all of this time into understanding them,” Graham says, “but always in back of our minds, it was like, ‘We know what the gestures mean.’”

From Scientific American • Jan. 24, 2023

As they left Düsseldorf by train, Ruth began a diary: “Germany lies in back of us,” she wrote.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2023

But instead of Da, Patch had come along in back of me, the bottom of his skirt dragging.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff