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backtrack
verb as in backpedal
Example Sentences
The man signed to close Ten Hag’s infamous donut - the midfield hole that opens up when United’s forwards press and defenders backtrack – has previously enjoyed success under Amorim.
"Don't try and backtrack now, just be straight up. Just own it," Mayer told Ryan.
Vance had to backtrack, however, because the Trump campaign wants the anti-choice activists to believe — correctly, in this case — that he will sign an abortion ban.
If the former congresswoman had opted to back Trump — or just backtrack on her condemnations of him after a “respectable” period of time the way former Speaker Kevin McCarthy and so many others did — she might be the speaker today.
"We catch the sound as it arrives at each microphone, backtrack to figure out where it came from, and then, in essence, we suppress any sound that couldn't have come from where the person is sitting," says Mr McElveen.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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