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back up

verb as in move backward

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adjective as in substitute

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Social-media reports show others that “you can get knocked down and get back up again,” he said.

It also said it would buy back up to $14 million in shares.

Statistics also back up the reality that severe weather is now an all-year-round problem.

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After decades with long-term tenants, the brothers calculated that getting the apartments back up to code would cost thousands of dollars that couldn’t be recouped at the artificially low rent cap.

When hydrogen had built up in the unit 3 building, it had backed up into unit 4, too, and been sparked into an explosion in the air ducts on the building’s fourth floor.

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

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