backwards
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"Growing up gay in an environment where you’re not allowed to be that was very taxing on me," Gigi told the Bringin' It Backwards podcast, in 2022.
From BBC • Nov. 21, 2024
If the term regression feels too academic, we may just as easily call it the Great Leap Backwards.
From Salon • Jul. 6, 2022
He discovered punk rock when he saw “a strangely compelling photo of a shirtless man on the cover of Creem magazine” at the only record shop in Ellensburg, he wrote in “Sing Backwards and Weep.”
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2022
Because it ran away from Manhattan, the transit writer Ben Kabak nicknamed it the Backwards Airtrain.
From Slate • Mar. 17, 2021
An old Paravan, who had seen the Walking Backwards days, torn between Loyalty and Love.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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