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Recent Examples of backwash Below them, harbor seals appeared in the backwash of coves. Elaine Glusac, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2024 The earliest object is an exquisite 1951 painting by the late Lee Mullican, once a UCLA professor, its knife-edge rays of shimmery golden light emerging from a central core to summon the birth of new worlds in the era’s backwash of hydrogen bombs and Holocaust. Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023 This backwash, otherwise known as acid reflux, can wreak havoc on the lining of your esophagus and cause that burning sensation in your throat. Lashieka Hunter, Men's Health, 21 Dec. 2022 The heart’s four valves — two for each side — each sport cartilage leaflets that must be supple enough to open wide with forward flow, then billow closed to stop backwash. Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 18 June 2022 See All Example Sentences for backwash
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Noun
  • The comedically top-heavy sausages, which can easily topple forwards into the dirt, temporarily take center stage as the baseball players gaze on in amusement from their dugouts, sometimes wagering on the outcome.
    Don Riddell, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The film benefits from its avoidance of a too-tidy, sentimental outcome, even if some in the audience might be left craving one.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Moyes and assistant McKinlay both remonstrated with the fourth official at the resultant flash of a yellow card.
    Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The resultant program or app is established without any need for understanding computer programming.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That's the result of Republicans and Democrats failing to reach a deal to pass a stopgap funding bill.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • For best results and to keep your flannel looking great, follow the care instructions on the tag.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Whether that fluctuating dynamic between coach and players should have any lasting consequences is a matter for United’s board and owners which, as Amorim referenced in his pre-match press conference, includes the Glazers as well as Ratcliffe.
    Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Doing so could lead to serious consequences, including years in prison, according to Steve Levin, a University of Maryland Carey School of Law professor.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Getting in good positions but lacking the necessary telepathy with his new team mates, meaning his usual big end product figures (10 goals and six assists in 25 Bundesliga league appearances last season) aren’t there.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Speaking from inside the Jacksonville stadium — and inside a room with poster renderings of the finished product in 2028 — Chiefs team president Mark Donovan said Monday the organization is taking the next step toward establishing its future home.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The data track earlier indications based on calls to Wisconsin's 211 helpline in the early aftermath of the storm.
    Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • First and foremost will be the aftermath of the messy business involving Gibbs, Franks, Lala, and the murder of Pedro Hernandez.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Oct. 2025

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“Backwash.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backwash. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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