double back
phrasal verb
doubled back; doubling back; doubles back
: to turn around and return on the same path
I'm going to double back to see if I dropped the ring on the way here.
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And, if the whole reservation thing doesn't go as smoothly as hoped, the restaurant is open to doubling back, the post warned.
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Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 24 Nov. 2025
After that first week, Preller doubled back.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2025
But that principle was abandoned nine years later, with the court doubling back on its position.
—Andrea Katz, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
Reggae and funk ripple around the drums while Reggie Noble slips in and out of a dozen different voices, doubling back over himself to riff about Reggie Jackson and stun his psychiatrist.
—Pitchfork, 30 Sep. 2025
As in the game, the only active choice the Lost Man can make, therefore, is to move forward or double back, and soon a poster appears telling him how to exercise that limited free will.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025
Johnson and Brown initially ran off; however, Brown later doubled back and was shot again, this time to death.
—Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Williams won two mixed doubles back in 1998 and was never likely to add a third here.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 24 Nov. 2025
After that first week, Preller doubled back.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2025
But that principle was abandoned nine years later, with the court doubling back on its position.
—Andrea Katz, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
Reggae and funk ripple around the drums while Reggie Noble slips in and out of a dozen different voices, doubling back over himself to riff about Reggie Jackson and stun his psychiatrist.
—Pitchfork, 30 Sep. 2025
As in the game, the only active choice the Lost Man can make, therefore, is to move forward or double back, and soon a poster appears telling him how to exercise that limited free will.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025
Johnson and Brown initially ran off; however, Brown later doubled back and was shot again, this time to death.
—Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Williams won two mixed doubles back in 1998 and was never likely to add a third here.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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“Double back.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/double%20back. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.
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