move backward
Example Sentences
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“I think we are just going to move backward before we go forward,” Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist and author of the newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist, told Salon.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2026
Because when he’s gotten chances, like the one in front of him with the Lakers, he doesn’t move backward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2024
If the council cannot accelerate its reviews and clarify council deliberation procedures, we will move backward in meeting Clean Energy Transition Act requirements, discourage investment and good jobs, and increase ratepayer costs.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 18, 2024
By complementing past approaches that were indirect or limited, the new method reveals that many such events move backward further than once thought, and in doing so, last longer.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2024
Then, with a clank and a clang, it began to move backward, and that was how we went down the street, the trolley backing up before us as we marched on.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
