back down

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Recent Examples of back down In the gondola on the way back down the mountain to Telluride, Cannes Film Festival topper Thierry Frémaux hops on at the halfway station. Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025 Hold for a few seconds, and then lower back down with control. Jakob Roze, Health, 2 Sep. 2025 Campbell last played for Boston in June before the MLB club sent him back down to Triple-A Worcester. Tim Crowley, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025 But that brief period of openness and luxury ended quickly, with international sanctions clamping back down in 2003. Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for back down
Recent Examples of Synonyms for back down
Verb
  • By the time Sega backed out of the hardware race post-Dreamcast, Shinobi mostly limped on with a couple of 3D entries for PlayStation and Nintendo platforms before fading into obscurity.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The driver was trying to back out, but the tires were just spinning in the mud.
    Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In both cases, Tibetans immediately backed off.
    Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Discomfort is a sign to back off.
    Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • On Thursday, there were 652 officers on the force, with nearly 100 cops out on some kind of administrative or medical leave.
    Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2025
  • But with that brief wave of hope came new footage on Twitter every night of the NYPD acting like bad cops out of a Harvey Keitel flick: cops harassing peaceful crowds, cops kettling activists, cops literally driving a car into a crowd of protestors.
    Maris Kreizman, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2025
Verb
  • The Food and Drug Administration is recalling frozen shrimp sold at Walmart for possible radioactive chemical contamination.
    Cheryl V. Jackson, IndyStar, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The Food and Drug Administration is recalling frozen shrimp sold at Walmart, including stores in Ohio and Kentucky, for possible radioactive chemical contamination.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, The Enquirer, 21 Aug. 2025

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