backward
Example Sentences
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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
The perverse reality is that the court’s use of history in Callais couldn’t be more backward.
From Slate • 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
“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
He didn’t know how it was possible, but he could feel time flowing past him, scrolling backward.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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