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Recent Examples of Synonyms for climbing down
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Moore's campaign is not backing down and continues to air the commercials on Fox News and Facebook.
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His critics by now should have realized Aguirre, the survivor, the dreamer, the savior, the fighter, isn’t about to start backing down.
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Despite this, there is something alluring about the notion of Messi, Neymar and Ronaldo all bowing out at their final World Cup together.
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Luther Campbell, Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Dale Holness, and Elijah Manley had discussed one or two of them bowing out of the race but could not decide who that should be by the filing deadline.
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“Climbing down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/climbing%20down. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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