backward
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He had two blocks, one in which he just raised up to swat a shot by Tari Eason in the third quarter while then falling down backward in the process.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2026
“You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backward to the technology,” he said.
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026
"He has only been able to have weekend leave for the past three weeks, in a wheelchair, which frustrates him greatly: it feels like a sad step backward."
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
“I think we are just going to move backward before we go forward,” Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist and author of the newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist, told Salon.
From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026
The movie truck rattled behind me on the street, the backward lettering of Metro Studio flashing in its reflection in the shop window.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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