- present participle of backtrack.
backtracking
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London Mayor Lord Khan called the backtracking "a betrayal".
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
Earlier this year, it did indeed look like the administration would block mFlusiva; the FDA initially refused to review Moderna’s application, backtracking only after experts and the company pushed back.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
Happily, the backtracking and throat-clearing ends a little less than halfway through, and from then on it’s all baseball.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Some Inuit families in Greenland remain worried despite US President Donald Trump backtracking on a threat of using force to acquire the Arctic territory and beginning talks with Copenhagen and Nuuk.
From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026
Because they didn’t want to be distracted choosing which way to go—or backtracking when they made a wrong choice and hit a dead end.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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