backpedal
Example Sentences
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The first of those came when Ayaan Khan took a catch on the long-off boundary but backpedalled over the boundary.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2024
Sibanda backpedalled and pushed the ball over the crossbar.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 21, 2019
He later backpedalled and told Brown got his MD at Warsaw Medical University — a claim neither Gizmodo nor Salon could verify.
From Salon • Mar. 4, 2019
But by January, he had backpedalled, saying that he regretted his comments and acknowledging that “the blockchain is real” technology.
From The Verge • Oct. 31, 2018
They backpedalled, and tried to retreat back to the mandarin obscurity of their cozy subcultural niches.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce
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