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  1. Backfired

    "Backfired" is the debut solo single from American singer and Blondie vocalist Debbie Harry. Released in 1981, it was taken from her debut solo studio album, KooKoo.

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  1. Backfired

    Backfired is the debut solo single from the American singer-songwriter and Blondie vocalist Debbie Harry. Released in 1981, it was taken from her Gold-selling debut solo album KooKoo.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of backfired in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of backfired in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of backfired in a Sentence

  1. Jesse Hullinger:

    Maple Mountain tried taking this cheap-shot right at the end of the year and it just totally backfired on them!

  2. Zoe Gardner:

    They've learned all the wrong lessons from 2015, where cutting a deal with Turkey backfired dramatically when Turkish President Recep Tayyip decided it was politically convenient to use these people as weapons, letting them head for Greece.

  3. Alexandra Rojas:

    I think( Trump's effort) backfired and united anti-fascist, socialists( and others) to do everything we could to elect Joe Biden, because it's not about an individual, this is about, as Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez says, letting democracy live another day.

  4. Jens David Ohlin:

    They fired Comey because they wanted the Russia investigation to go away. It backfired. Now they have a special counsel and they have got someone who is going to be even less susceptible to pressure than Comey was, their ability to influence and manage this situation has gone out of the window. Things have definitely gotten worse for the White House.

  5. Charles Krauthammer:

    This is not going to end well, republicans have demonstrated, if they’ve demonstrated anything, Republicans in the Congress have shown that they have no ability to conduct successful investigations under this administration. Everything they've touched has failed or backfired.

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