backed (up)

past tense of back (up)

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Verb
  • If picked too early, before the skin has fully hardened, the squash may not be sweet and could be underdeveloped.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Around the same time, Israeli strikes on Damascus and continued clashes in Sweida hardened the idea, inside parts of the Kurdish movement, that the center could break.
    Hassan Hassan, Time, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Momentum is building behind the idea of ‘EU–INC’ – not a carbon copy of the Delaware model, but a fresh, pan-European corporate entity that will set a new global standard for business formation.
    Jan Hammer, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Without a national cinémathèque, the National Film Institute (NFI), along with the Film Archive and Filmlab, set about restoring, digitizing and sharing Hungary’s cinema.
    Lise Pedersen, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • While the rest of Burning Man celebrated, Kruglov lay prostrate on the ground at a faraway campsite in a comparatively desolate section of Black Rock City, his throat slashed, as a puddle of blood congealed around his lifeless body.
    Denver Nicks, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2025
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“Backed (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backed%20%28up%29. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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