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View definitions for goes back

goes back

verb as in break promise; change one's mind

verb as in break

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Like so much in American politics, the debate about cops goes back to Nixon, says Pitney.

This penchant for medical internationalism goes back to the greatest icon of the revolution, Ernesto “Che” Guevara.

And let us be sure, also, that the Picasso goes back to the Hermitage Museum.

“I have a history of not supporting Hillary Clinton that goes back to 2007,” Sagner said.

It goes back with me not to childhood so much as to late adolescence.

To the north of this is Malmesbury, with an abbey church whose history goes back to the Ninth Century.

In the second sentence “bound volume” goes back to what words in the first sentence?

Even in the present year-1913-the Lenten pastoral of one of the bishops goes back to the same old subject.

So th' good woman, frivilous crather that she is, goes back to her wurruk singin' a light chune.

Devenish, who is evidently much attracted by Delia, apologizes to her and goes back between tree and hammock to L. of Belinda.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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