backwards
backward
/ (ˈbækwədz) /
towards the rear
with the back foremost
in the reverse of usual order or direction
to or towards the past
into a worse state: the patient was slipping backwards
towards the point of origin
bend over backwards, lean over backwards or fall over backwards informal to make a special effort, esp in order to please
know backwards informal to understand completely
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How to use backwards in a sentence
The city is bending over backwards for restaurants, hair salons, barbershops – that they would consider putting another layer of red tape to re-open hotels is really unfair.
City to Weigh Measure Giving Laid-Off Hotel Workers First Shot at Open Jobs | Maya Srikrishnan | September 8, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoWe should note that some political scientists argue that Gehl and Porter’s analysis of party power has it backwards.
America’s Hidden Duopoly (Ep. 356 Rebroadcast) | Stephen J. Dubner | September 3, 2020 | FreakonomicsIt works great looking backwards, but going forwards it doesn’t work.
The Economics of Sports Gambling (Ep. 388 Rebroadcast) | Stephen J. Dubner | August 20, 2020 | FreakonomicsIt’s also clear that this is not how the brain solves the learning problem, because it requires error signals to be sent backwards in both time and space across the synapses between neurons, which is clearly impossible.
A New Brain-Inspired Learning Method for AI Saves Memory and Energy | Edd Gent | July 27, 2020 | Singularity HubIt strikes me that you got that exactly backwards with your political career.
It seems backwards to applaud what is already necessary, what has already been clear for a long time.
The Unbearable Whiteness of Protesting | Rawiya Kameir, Judnick Mayard | December 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMuch of the Internet still harbors very backwards views towards women.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Why He’s Exploring the Word ‘Feminism’ and Online Misogyny | Marlow Stern | September 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSince bandwidth has become reasonable, paying extra for it feels like a backwards move.
Porn Fights For Your Right to Surf: Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube Lead Charge For Net Neutrality | Aurora Snow | September 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the search for an alternative, both writers looked not forward, but backwards.
In the Future We'll All Be Renters: America's Disappearing Middle Class | Joel Kotkin | August 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSpeaking up about this backwards philosophy is actually how she got the gig.
Who’s That ‘Bum’ Girl? The Brit Telling Americans How To Wipe Their Asses | Sara Lieberman | June 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe series is so taught that it can be recited forwards and backwards—the only true test of learning any series.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)His imagination, wakened by Egypt, plunged backwards with a sense of strange familiarity.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodHe went backwards, sailing through the air, to land in the evergreen bed.
All belonged to the first days in Egypt before he noticed anything; the mind worked backwards to their gleaning.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodThe natural result was that the ʼrikisha man bolted and the ʼrikisha tilted backwards, to the discomfort of the fool riding in it.
The Philippine Islands | John Foreman
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