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Still, this week’s results suggest that those heavy-handed tactics can eventually backfire.

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2026

Getting out of credit-card debt faster is a worthy goal, but draining your emergency savings to do so can backfire.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

Formula 1 is an expensive pursuit and far wealthier nations have already seen their ambitions backfire.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

"I would argue that this could actually backfire," Kugelman says.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

In many Mende stories the spider is the character that tricks other animals to get what he wants, but his tricks always backfire on him.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

The company has long relied on this high-yielding equity as its primary engine to bankroll Bitcoin acquisitions—a strategy that backfires when the shares lose ground.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

All of the above comes with a caveat: Unbridled choice often backfires.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

Is there a chance this really backfires, then?

From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2026

The programme describes it as a hero's plot for peace that backfires with drastic consequences.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025

While groans, fiendish gurglings and backfires were emitting from the barn, the house itself would be organized confusion, as the family carried out its preparations in accordance with prearranged plans.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

The maps backfired in several states, and Democrats managed to win several of those redrawn districts in Texas, Florida, and North Carolina.

From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2026

It was a gamble that backfired and, after two bruising defeats, he may benefit from some time away.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

But in the end, the episode backfired on them.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Wilson, 71 years old, has never been one to hold his tongue and sometimes his outspokenness has backfired.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Our plan to come home early had backfired completely.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon

"The policy risks backfiring because it would result in stockpiling of diesel, and as that storage runs out, refineries would need to cut back on production," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

"These things are backfiring," he said, adding that "the regulatory environment is obviously not helping Europe or France."

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

But Frazer Rhodes, who worked in government across a decade to help build the technology and devise high thresholds for the alerts, feels a review is now necessary to avoid future ones backfiring.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

In fact, it is backfiring, dusting the world in optimistic, spring-flower pink schadenfreude.

From Salon ● May 16, 2026

Then a truck came toward us with its chains ratding and its engine backfiring.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus