go backwards
Example Sentences
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The kind of courage and self-knowledge that it must have taken to sort of go backwards.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
"We feel we are going backwards -- we should never go backwards."
From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025
I’ve come way too far to go backwards, and I’m not just a puppet anymore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
“Returns go backwards, and returns cost retailers a ton of money.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2025
Our vessel, however, soon ran aground again, and as we could not proceed, we made the vessel go backwards to the right bank, where we passed the night.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian
