backwards

Example Sentences

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Privacy campaigners, however, say the move represents a step backwards.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

Bank earnings are as much an art as a science, and to estimate loan-loss provisions a firm has to come up with a worst-case scenario and work backwards from there.

From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026

"We are bending backwards to help but we don't have a magic wand," she said, calling on African governments to help with tax breaks and investments of their own.

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

“If you dove off a skyscraper backwards, that’s what it felt like for five seconds,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Dicey nodded her head and watched the mists rising almost in straight lines, like rain going backwards.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt