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At the same time, a global backslash is also building against Tesla as the brand becomes tied to Trump, with plunging sales in Europe and Canada.
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Vanessa Gera, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2025
Unfortunately, those same power users will want to defenestrate the little laptop, due to its strange rehoming of the backslash key.
—Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 21 June 2020
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Vanessa Gera, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2025
Unfortunately, those same power users will want to defenestrate the little laptop, due to its strange rehoming of the backslash key.
—Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 21 June 2020
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“Backslash.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/backslash. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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backslash
noun
back·slash
-ˌslash 
: a mark \ used especially in computer programming
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