back and forth
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During our interview, Roebuck went back and forth between his feelings about Walters’ sentence.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Cyber officials had been in talks with Anthropic since May about testing Mythos 5, which resulted in months of back and forth between the two sides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
By the final stage, OpenAI researcher Sebastien Bubeck said, 10,000 AI agents -- programs that operate on their own -- were working on the problem at once, passing messages back and forth.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
After this, there will be a lot of going back and forth across the Channel; crimes of the aristocracy; Darnay’s own Big Secret revealed; more trials, more imprisonments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
I look back and forth between the blueprint and Theo’s face.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
