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Mayor Karen Bass has called for the department to replenish its ranks, proposing a budget that takes the force back up to 9,500.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2023

The United States has stumbled on this effect several times, but perhaps most powerfully in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, when it sought to force back its Communist adversaries by bombing their towns and cities.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2022

Meanwhile, the Canucks got an offensive force back in Brock Boeser.

From Washington Times • Nov. 28, 2018

If a force is exerted on an object, it must be exerted by something else, and the object will exert an equal and opposite force back on that something.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

I bit the inside of my cheek to force back the tears.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson




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