backward
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“Norteña” is the first time she’s explicitly looked backward, with the cultural weight and sounds of northern Mexico behind her.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
It’s time for federal investments in childcare to ensure we don’t take steps backward.
From Salon • May 10, 2026
In this approach, chemists begin with the final molecule they want and work backward to figure out simpler starting materials and possible reaction routes.
From Science Daily • May 5, 2026
Box-shaped robots—part of the AutoStore automated storage-and-retrieval system—wheel around the top of the stacks in a grid pattern moving forward, backward and sideways.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
She didn’t know how to count backward so she waited for him to sing the correct number each time and then she joined in.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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