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backward

[bak-werd] / ˈbæk wərd /




ADVERB
toward the rear
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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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