backward
Example Sentences
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Using mortality as a clear endpoint allows scientists to work backward and investigate which biological processes may have contributed to the outcome.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
Mr. Vance’s history of America’s institutional decline may have the causation backward.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
To understand what you’re agreeing to, look backward instead of forward.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
It’s a tender, naked and amusing personal essay, grounded in the now while looking both backward and forward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
She yanked me backward again, but this time it was to one of the abandoned computers.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
Vocabulary lists containing backward
"LAFFF"
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"The Tempest," Vocabulary from Acts 1 and 2
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