Example Sentences

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“People are back-channeling, looking at their networks — they’re talking to lobbyists to see what they can do to connect with the president and his team.”

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2024

But back-channeling can also be destructive when it crosses the line into tattling, gossiping, undermining or sowing distrust.

From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2023

This is the story of how quiet back-channeling helped shape the climate policies in the new law.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 16, 2022

A few months later during the Berlin Crisis, when Soviet and American tanks were in a standoff at Checkpoint Charlie, RFK’s back-channeling may have been the reason the Kremlin withdrew their 30 tanks without incident.

From Slate • May 27, 2017

His friend rejects this unseemly arrangement as an example of the back-channeling and deal-making that they’d gotten into the legal profession to stop.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2017