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

“You can’t go backwards and try to make the world small again.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2025

“No one’s looking to go backwards on toilets,” he says.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2025

Then, as to the charitable societies, one must go backwards and forwards twenty times before we should obtain relief; and then what would it be?

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Sue, Eugène