Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for backed (up or away)
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White retired from professional cooking in 1999 and took the unconventional step of handing his three stars back and has since become a vocal critic of the Michelin star system.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
4 June 2026 -
Wie West retired three years ago after the Open at Pebble Beach, but came out of retirement to use her last year of exemption to play on this iconic course, celebrating its centennial.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
Verb
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Less than a week later, the UA withdrew the offer.—
Ryan Anderson,
Arkansas Online,
29 May 2026
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Historians say the original Liberty Pole was erected as British forces withdrew from New York following their defeat in the Revolutionary War, a symbolic act meant to assert American independence and taunt departing troops.—
Hannah Kliger,
CBS News,
28 May 2026
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There are five Broderick siblings, but their eldest brother and sister ran away from the cult, and their mother was kicked out after medication was found among her belongings.—
Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
28 May 2026
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After shooting Samuelson, Grafton ran away from the hospital and briefly hid in the bed of a truck in the parking lot, before fleeing into the woods nearby.—
Todd Feurer,
CBS News,
27 May 2026
Verb
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While India’s media landscape has largely retreated in the face of the Hindu right’s fascism, Kandasamy is one of the few consistently at the barricades.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 May 2026
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Travel stocks — Shares of airlines and cruise operators rose as oil prices retreated on Wednesday.—
Davis Giangiulio,
CNBC,
27 May 2026
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In a nod to her Noughties rom-com glory days, Lopez embraced glam that could have walked out of the early 2000s.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
3 June 2026
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That's a dramatically higher survival rate than was seen in West Africa in 2014, where only about half of patients walked out of treatment clinics.—
Jonathan Lambert,
NPR,
2 June 2026
Verb
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Then the German chemists Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch cracked industrial nitrogen fixation in 1909, and the practical significance of the problem receded.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
29 May 2026
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Obey any barricades in place even once flood waters have receded because the road may have been compromised and may still not be safe for travel.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
27 May 2026
Verb
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Some sponsors have pulled out of the celebrations Last year, some big corporations stopped contributing to Pride events.—
Geoff Mulvihill,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2026
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Calvin Buergey pulled out a $100 bill to buy a bottle of Coke.—
Shannon Pettypiece,
NBC news,
1 June 2026
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“Backed (up or away).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backed%20%28up%20or%20away%29. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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