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back up

verb as in move backward

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adjective as in substitute

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Like that famously terrible It's a Royal Knockout game show from 1987, she seemed to have a knack of being unceremoniously knocked off life's ladders but still being able to climb back up again.

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Jacklin backed up that first win by masterminding a first away triumph by any team from this side of the Atlantic in 1987.

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That ambition is backed up by a survey of 700 residents.

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Currently, the Northern Runway is currently only used for taxiing or as a back up.

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“As someone who can speak with some authority on this, Charlie loved that he was featured in ‘South Park,’” Andrew Kolvet posted Wednesday on X. “He would want the episode back up.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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