in back
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: in an area at the back of something
The clerk brought out the item from the storeroom in back
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The House settlement calls for former athletes to receive millions in back pay and also gives schools the option to distribute up to $20.5 million a year in payments to athletes for use of their name, image and likeness.
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Teresa M. Walker, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
Found in back of Mercedes SUV in Miami Police initially discovered El Taiger, whose birth name is José Manuel Carvajal Zaldívar, bleeding from the head with a gunshot wound in the back of 2023 Mercedes SUV at Northwest Ninth Avenue and 17th Street in Miami, just before 7 a.m. on Oct. 3.
—Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2025
The person was also seen in back of the house standing in front of a driveway camera, Star-Telegram media partner WFAA-TV reported.
—Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Jan. 2025
The hospital, owned by American Health Care Systems and operated by Vista, is also behind on its water bill, owes $1 million in back taxes and owes a slate of clinical providers, vendors, the city of Waukegan and the police department money for services, Banek said.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 29 Jan. 2025
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Teresa M. Walker, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
Found in back of Mercedes SUV in Miami Police initially discovered El Taiger, whose birth name is José Manuel Carvajal Zaldívar, bleeding from the head with a gunshot wound in the back of 2023 Mercedes SUV at Northwest Ninth Avenue and 17th Street in Miami, just before 7 a.m. on Oct. 3.
—Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2025
The person was also seen in back of the house standing in front of a driveway camera, Star-Telegram media partner WFAA-TV reported.
—Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Jan. 2025
The hospital, owned by American Health Care Systems and operated by Vista, is also behind on its water bill, owes $1 million in back taxes and owes a slate of clinical providers, vendors, the city of Waukegan and the police department money for services, Banek said.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 29 Jan. 2025
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“In back.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20back. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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