roll back
Example Sentences
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Hilton would likely struggle to persuade a majority of voters to roll back environmental protections.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
While a fragile one-year truce managed to roll back certain tariffs, the fundamental friction remains as hot as ever.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
The former general said the shift aimed to roll back two decades of cooperation with Russia and Cuba, whose advisers helped reshape the armed forces and supplied weapons from rifles to Sukhoi fighter jets.
From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026
She has said she will “fight tooth and nail against any effort to further roll back these fundamental protections.”
From Slate • Mar. 17, 2026
At first I was gonna have us roll back out, find some other place to chill, but instead we walked way on the other end of the field from them.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
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