backward
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This time, the outfits were cool and more presentable: loose jeans, backward caps.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 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
All of those things were happening, but we have taken a few steps backward.
From Barron's • Apr. 9, 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
Her eyes rolled backward, and he just caught her as she fell sideways.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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