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back

[bak] / bæk /


ADJECTIVE
from earlier time
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"Then we see the plane leave and got told we have to go and book our own flight back."

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

Chris Watling, chief market strategist at Longview Economics, looked back decades at 15 similar non-bear market episodes and found that was the case almost 80% of the time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

A huge wave of mechanical buying by a group of Wall Street investors scrambling to get back into the market has likely peaked, possibly a headwind for the S&P 500 going forward.

From MarketWatch • 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

“No? I would like a glass of iced yaupon holly tea and, well, actually, I need directions. I have to find my way back to my auntie’s to make one hundred pieces of frybread.”

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




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