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But then he appeared to backtrack after his critique made headlines and ricocheted around social media.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

There is a mini photo shoot with Floren’s truck in front of the vintage hotel sign, and then we jump in the cars and backtrack up the 33/166 toward Hudson Ranch Road.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

He has previously issued apocalyptic warnings to Tehran, only to later backtrack by saying diplomacy was underway.

From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026

Last week, the NUS handed in a petition signed by 13,000 students calling on the government to backtrack.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

All I had to do to get home was backtrack, or keep going till I reached fields.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

The first half of the novel backtracks from the discovery of Pam’s body to the graduation party nine months prior, when each Bishop sister is struggling with serious financial hardship.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025

To do so, the complex moves down DNA chains in one direction, but backtracks in certain scenarios.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2024

Playing over the game, the result makes perfect sense: White plays way better than Black, with simple, strong developing moves while Carlsen wastes time and backtracks to no obvious purpose.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 18, 2023

A sharp cooling of inflation hints at an easier road for Bullock, after Lowe's controversy-filled legacy of painful backtracks and abrupt shifts that cost him a second term.

From Reuters ● Sep. 1, 2023

Garden paths can turn the experience of reading from an effortless glide through a sentence to a tedious two-step of little backtracks.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

In his latest interview with Axios Sunday, Bessent backtracked and conceded, “I can’t control the bond market.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

“A lot of us, our hope is that eventually, history will straighten this all out and say, no, Gloria came in a little later, and her very loyal supporters have backtracked that history.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Davis has since backtracked and pleaded not guilty.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

"I immediately backtracked and went to the next one to be greeted by the same situation."

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

They backtracked and camped in the actual road and when they went on in the morning the macadam had cooled.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

Within months he was backtracking, citing concerns of "safety and quality of life".

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

"For them, backtracking would mean losing their pioneering advantage."

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 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

But backtracking and regrets have no place here.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2026

Clearly the traffic got so bad, people turned around on the road and tried to go the other way, hoping that backtracking would actually cut their losses.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman