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Example Sentences
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David, the budding mogul, is not only backed by father Larry’s Oracle wealth.
She backed up a little and peered out the window, straight down to the cockpit of the plane.
From Literature
He later backed the new president's decision to support gay marriage, comparing the situation to the earlier struggle against laws in the country that had barred interracial marriage.
From BBC
So far, Iran hasn’t backed down from its insistence on a right to enrich uranium.
Drawings of Hannibal's war against the Romans had long suggested that the beasts were used in fighting, but no hard evidence backed up the theories.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
