cast back
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Millions of people were evacuated, as minds cast back to the devastating tsunami of Boxing Day 2004 in the Indian Ocean and Japan 2011, both triggered by similarly large earthquakes.
From BBC • Jul. 30, 2025
That said, Fischer doesn’t think the show should come back, even if it were feasible to bring the cast back.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2025
One other part of the episode worked for me: seeing the original cast back together in one room for the first time all season.
From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2023
In the meantime, many Bucha residents have been cast back into the 19th century, drawing water from wells, lighting candles at night and cooking outside on campfires, staring into the flames.
From Seattle Times • May 2, 2022
No reflection was to be allowed now: not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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