backwards

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When I was born, I had a traumatic birth — I was backwards, I had the cord around, I was hyperactive.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026

In France - one of a number of countries where genetic testing is illegal without a medical prescription due to privacy laws - the government has condemned the decision as "a step backwards".

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

The hospital "bends over backwards to make transplants happen to ensure that we say yes to every good donor organ", Papworth's clinical lead, Dr Steve Pettit, told File on Four Investigates.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

He published it at age 59, when his own adventures in nervous-system regulation allowed him to bend his formerly stiff body backwards into a plow pose.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

I tried to curl myself around Rose's back, but the intimacy was further broken by RiRi’s feet thrown backwards over Rose’s knees so that they jabbed into my legs like rounded icicles.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline