back and forth
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Using the transfer stations to access Claude, the Chinese performed their distillation by monitoring the back and forth communications between their customers and products such as Claude, Anthropic said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Both players failed to take break-point opportunities before a match-deciding breaker swung back and forth.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
By the final stage, OpenAI researcher Sebastien Bubeck said, 10,000 AI agents -- programs that operate on their own -- were working on the problem at once, passing messages back and forth.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
I have gone back and forth, and I have landed on this: It is an elegy.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Her hand waves back and forth between the two as she makes the necessary introductions.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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