backstab

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Recent Examples of backstab Friends can lie, colleagues can backstab, anyone can die in any number of brutal ways. Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025 Many of the women are status-obsessed and needy, quick to backstab other women to reach the top. Literary Hub june 21, Literary Hub, 21 June 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for backstab
betray
Verb
  • The budget stalemate has intensified as Democrats feel betrayed by earlier spending cuts that Republicans passed on party lines.
    Ronald J. Hansen, AZCentral.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • This time, though, his radar had been skewed, betraying a player with fewer than 400 minutes of top-flight experience to his name before Saturday’s game.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025

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“Backstab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backstab. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.

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