backward
Example Sentences
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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
In this approach, chemists begin with the final molecule they want and work backward to figure out simpler starting materials and possible reaction routes.
From Science Daily • May 5, 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
I walk backward a few steps before spinning on my heel and jogging across the parking lot toward the gravel road.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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