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backtracking
noun as in palinode
noun as in recantation
noun as in retractation
noun as in retraction
noun as in U-turn
Strongest matches
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Example Sentences
In one widely-shared clip, a worker tells a caller the ban has been in place for around a month - before later backtracking and stating content is only banned when it is "abusive".
While he was communications minister, Tchiroma notably came under fire for denying - then backtracking on his denial - that Cameroonian soldiers had killed women and children in a viral video verified by BBC Africa Eye.
Trump immediately went along with this, backtracking on the strategy he had agreed with European leaders a day earlier.
But instead of line-crossing and then backtracking, Trump is doubling down on lawlessness and enjoying the bubbling constitutional crisis.
A survivor of child sexual exploitation, Lucia Rea, told GB News government backtracking was a "betrayal" of survivors hoping for justice and undermined the "very little" trust there was in the first place.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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