1
as in to revert
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as in to backpedal
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Recent Examples of backtrack
Now the company is backtracking on that strategy, and PlayStation consumers and the company’s competitors are left wondering why.
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Jennifer Maas, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025
The Republican presidential candidate never backtracked on that claim.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2025
This method enables the model to backtrack and revise earlier steps — mimicking human thinking — while allowing users to also follow its rationale.
—Jasmine Cui, NBC News, 28 Jan. 2025
In an interview earlier this month, Musk backtracked on that goal.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
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Jennifer Maas, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025
The Republican presidential candidate never backtracked on that claim.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2025
This method enables the model to backtrack and revise earlier steps — mimicking human thinking — while allowing users to also follow its rationale.
—Jasmine Cui, NBC News, 28 Jan. 2025
In an interview earlier this month, Musk backtracked on that goal.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for backtrack
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Efforts were concentrated last summer on an unprecedented spending spree of nearly £200million on nine new signings, but the narrative this summer could revert back to players in the squad likely to attract weighty transfer interest.—
Andy Naylor,
The Athletic,
3 Feb. 2025
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His proposal also would remove an enhanced credit for Idahoans 65 years and older, and instead revert them to the same credit that others receive.—
Ian Max Stevenson,
Idaho Statesman,
27 Jan. 2025
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Russia will have to backpedal on its adversarial and hostile stance toward the U.S., and Putin’s apparently good relations with Trump could also make that far easier.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
13 Feb. 2025
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Namely, making a downhill defender have to turn on a dime and sprint uphill, backpedaling between wing and prayer.—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
3 Feb. 2025
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Trump’s order revokes a Biden policy phasing out federal purchases of single-use plastics in food service, events and packaging by […] Subscribe to continue reading this article.—
Carson Swick,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Feb. 2025
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Finance/technology Trump revoked former President Biden's artificial intelligence guardrails and has since signed executive orders aimed at bolstering the country's competitiveness in AI and tech.—
Avery Lotz,
Axios,
11 Feb. 2025
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And the news is in some ways good—but even now, far more papers should be retracted than are retracted.—
Adam Marcus,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2025
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Next month marks the 15-year anniversary of what should have ended Wakefield’s false claim: In February 2010, The Lancet formally retracted his paper in the face of proof that the data had been manipulated.—
Eleanor Menzin,
TIME,
30 Jan. 2025
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“Backtrack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backtrack. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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