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back

[bak] / bæk /


ADJECTIVE
from earlier time
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Non-AI interest by clients is focused on the healthcare side, and some buying back of beaten-down software names.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 20, 2026

At the start of this year, midsize bank stocks were roaring back versus their larger peers after two years of deep underperformance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

I thought back to that Rolling Stones show, which had drawn more than half a million people.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026

The process got more mechanized through the back half of the American Century—out with the cover cropping, in with the monocrop, packed tight as can be.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

You’re usually self-conscious during introductions, but being back in a group of Native people is worth feeling awkward at first, and the feeling is temporary anyway.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith




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