back button
noun
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All too often, clicking the back button in your browser doesn’t actually take you back.
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ArsTechnica, 14 Apr. 2026
Each page also has forward and back buttons.
—Kathy Yakal, PC Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026
The remote has a screen, a main button that is also a selection wheel, a back button, and a button to control the eye pads.
—Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 23 Jan. 2026
After the last—about a town called Uncertain, Texas, where nobody can make up their mind—Cannon hit the talk-back button.
—Alex Abramovich, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
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ArsTechnica, 14 Apr. 2026
Each page also has forward and back buttons.
—Kathy Yakal, PC Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026
The remote has a screen, a main button that is also a selection wheel, a back button, and a button to control the eye pads.
—Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 23 Jan. 2026
After the last—about a town called Uncertain, Texas, where nobody can make up their mind—Cannon hit the talk-back button.
—Alex Abramovich, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
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“Back button.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/back%20button. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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