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go backwards



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"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

“And I don‘t want to have to see us go backwards to remind ourselves that vaccines work.

From Salon • Nov. 15, 2024

Progress indeed must be made; things will not go backwards, but must go forward, onward and upward.

From Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro by Fowler, Charles H.




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