go backwards
Example Sentences
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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
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
“No one’s looking to go backwards on toilets,” he says.
From Slate • Feb. 25, 2025
Ascend, as-send′, v.i. to climb or mount up: to rise, literally or figuratively: to go backwards in the order of time.—v.t. to climb or go up on: to mount.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various