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"We feel we are going backwards -- we should never go backwards."

From Barron's • Nov. 19, 2025

“Returns go backwards, and returns cost retailers a ton of money.”

From MarketWatch • Oct. 17, 2025

Would Liverpool tread water or even go backwards for a season or two while his successor settled into the job?

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2025

I’m actually trying to think how to go backwards a little bit into more fun creative play.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2025

But in the tangled study of the law, where one must go backwards and forwards, as in a rope-walk, and twist one's own cable out of many threads—of what use can the lecturer possibly be?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various




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