Backs
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Residents and civilian leaders of these islands worry the military expansion puts a target on their backs.
Its deal with OpenAI “appears to sanction its theft of our work and cedes the value of what we create to a tech company that has built its business off our backs,” the Writers Guild of America stated.
From Los Angeles Times
He hadn’t thought porcupines capable of launching quills from their backs.
From Literature
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The children’s backs were to them.
From Literature
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Tech companies have targets on their backs.
From Barron's
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