roll back
Example Sentences
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While a fragile one-year truce managed to roll back certain tariffs, the fundamental friction remains as hot as ever.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
The former general said the shift aimed to roll back two decades of cooperation with Russia and Cuba, whose advisers helped reshape the armed forces and supplied weapons from rifles to Sukhoi fighter jets.
From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026
She has said she will “fight tooth and nail against any effort to further roll back these fundamental protections.”
From Slate • Mar. 17, 2026
The US will control sales of sanctioned Venezuelan oil "indefinitely" as it prepares to roll back restrictions on the country's crude in global markets, the White House said.
From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026
On the beach I walk at the water’s edge, watching small stones roll back and forth with the waves.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
