backward
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All of those things were happening, but we have taken a few steps backward.
From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026
“I think we are just going to move backward before we go forward,” Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist and author of the newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist, told Salon.
From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026
Not only does she talk, but she recites venerable nursery rhymes, backward.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
Justin, the believer, is instantly alarmed by how these eerie tapes escalate from cute banter to ghostly crying babies and backward incantations.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026
She didn’t know how to count backward so she waited for him to sing the correct number each time and then she joined in.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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