backward
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Is a life spent constantly looking backward instead of hurtling forward even worth grieving?
From Salon • May 30, 2026
Heather Knight fell for 18 - caught at backward point reverse sweeping Melie Kerr - but Maia Bouchier's unbeaten 19 put them within striking distance.
From BBC • May 25, 2026
In one, time flows forward; in the other, it flows backward from its mirror-reflected position.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
Box-shaped robots—part of the AutoStore automated storage-and-retrieval system—wheel around the top of the stacks in a grid pattern moving forward, backward and sideways.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
The movie truck rattled behind me on the street, the backward lettering of Metro Studio flashing in its reflection in the shop window.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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"The Tempest," Vocabulary from Acts 1 and 2
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