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One visitor is 4 feet long, traipsing across the lawn in back of my condo, utterly unafraid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Nothing is remote here; to paraphrase Groucho Marx, if we were any closer, we’d be in back of them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
“There is water all around you. You can’t just pump it from the water in front of you, to the water in back of you.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2023
“We are putting all of this time into understanding them,” Graham says, “but always in back of our minds, it was like, ‘We know what the gestures mean.’”
From Scientific American ● Jan. 24, 2023
A spider hole is a hole dug in the ground that’s big enough for one man, sometimes two; but sometimes they’re disguised and there’s a tunnel entrance in back of them.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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