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backwards

adverb as in back; backward

adverb as in reverse to the usual way

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They want to “take us backwards. This is why it is important for you to vote no on Proposition 50,” Schwarzenegger says in an ad that was filmed when he spoke to USC students.

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We walk around a racquetball court with that wheel on me, and I’d have to walk with my hands, and then I’d have to walk backwards with it.

Celtic passed backwards, hesitant and unthreatening having just been knocked out of the Champions League by Kairat Almaty.

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It was, he said, an "unprecedented and deeply worrying step backwards for women's rights and human rights in Europe".

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One of the group “plunged her tusks up to the gums in the body of my Land-Rover . . . again she charged, and the Land-Rover was carried backwards at high speed for thirty-five yards.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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