backwards
Example Sentences
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Advertisers are bending over backwards to fit “maxxing” into their marketing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
He said that share prices seem to bake in that the company will move backwards rather than progress toward this benchmark.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
“That’s a long time to let something so backwards go on,” Brogin, now 77, said of the law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
That is the oldest truth about masculinity there is, and we have somehow arrived at a moment where a truck company has to remind us of it by getting it exactly backwards.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
Allen and Kenny made better time walking—Kenny backwards and dribbling his basketball and Allen forwards but reading—than I did on the lawn mower.
From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen
