Example Sentences
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Happily, the backtracking and throat-clearing ends a little less than halfway through, and from then on it’s all baseball.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
But backtracking and regrets have no place here.
From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026
Just hours before this latest backtracking, the Health Secretary Wes Streeting – who'd quite fancy being prime minister himself one day – said it was important the government "gets it right first time".
From BBC • Jan. 13, 2026
"Ten years after the Paris Agreement and we are still trying to lobby," he told AFP, adding that backtracking by polluters was "very disheartening".
From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025
We had spent all day struggling and backtracking in the cut-up, crevassed area east of the Fire-Hills; We were tired that evening but elated, sure that a clear course would soon open out ahead.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
