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if you back down about dinner again, I'm not going to agree to another date
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Thomas rushed back down the hill from the 18th and over to the 17th green.
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Brody Miller, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
When the couple finished eating, the same crew carried her back down.
—Barbara Bry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2025
During the heat of summer, those grass roots are just biding their time, waiting for the temperatures to go back down.
—Charlotte Germane, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2025
But this new area of research gives her a way to bring that high level of abstraction back down to earth.
—Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 26 Sep. 2025
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Brody Miller, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
When the couple finished eating, the same crew carried her back down.
—Barbara Bry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2025
During the heat of summer, those grass roots are just biding their time, waiting for the temperatures to go back down.
—Charlotte Germane, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2025
But this new area of research gives her a way to bring that high level of abstraction back down to earth.
—Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 26 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for back down
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“Back down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/back%20down. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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