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With five laps to go, Christopher Bell was challenging Hamlin for the lead when he got loose on the outside, hit the wall and then created havoc with the cars in back of him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2025
Stafford pass incomplete in back of end zone to Atwell with Brown in good coverage.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 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
As they left Düsseldorf by train, Ruth began a diary: “Germany lies in back of us,” she wrote.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2023
It was Appleby, hiding in back of a tree.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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