backward
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Extrapolating backward in time, Lemaître proposed the idea of a primeval atom: a singularity from which the universe emerged in a uniquely hot, dense state.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
Rather than predicting outcomes based on known rules, they allow scientists to start with observed data and work backward to uncover the hidden forces driving those observations.
From Science Daily • May 6, 2026
The perverse reality is that the court’s use of history in Callais couldn’t be more backward.
From Slate • May 5, 2026
“I think we are just going to move backward before we go forward,” Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist and author of the newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist, told Salon.
From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026
Once he tires himself out, he yells to Luna, “Do a flip! And that backward thing!”
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
Vocabulary lists containing backward
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"The Tempest," Vocabulary from Acts 1 and 2
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