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Backs

British

/ bæks /

plural noun

the grounds between the River Cam and certain Cambridge colleges

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Appeared in the April 8, 2026, print edition as 'Trump Backs Off Threat to Level Iran'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Backs to wall for part of it but absolutely class from England these last two days!

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2024

Backs Vilaseca and Nicolas Freitas joined in to drive hooker German Kessler over.

From Washington Times • Sep. 27, 2023

Under the headline “Britain Backs Labour,” the Times reported how “Tony Blair and the Labour Party swept to a victory of historic proportions in Britain’s national election on Thursday, ending 18 years of Conservative control.”

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2022

They are all tall and well shap'd; they walk well, but when they curt'sy, do it in such an aukward manner, that one would think their Backs were in danger of breaking.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

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