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backwards

adverb as in back; backward

adverb as in reverse to the usual way

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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.”

I’ve come way too far to go backwards, and I’m not just a puppet anymore.

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Many fans' groups feel that they are not being listened to and that the club is going backwards, a feeling that has driven the fans to the point of mutiny.

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“I wouldn’t be looking backwards at all for any motivation,’’ he said here Saturday.

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

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