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back away

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. retreat, pull back, back out, back away, crawfish, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, withdrawverb

    make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity

    "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns"

Wiktionary

  1. back awayverb

    To move in a direction opposite where one is facing, keeping some (or most) of your attention on the thing in front being avoided.

ChatGPT

  1. back away

    To back away means to move backwards away from something or someone, typically in order to avoid confrontation or a dangerous situation. It can also refer to gradually removing oneself from an involvement, commitment, or responsibility.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of back away in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of back away in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of back away in a Sentence

  1. Marcus Hicks:

    I cautioned my force to back away from pushing it too hard is because the resource rich environment that we enjoyed in Iraq and Afghanistan exists virtually nowhere in West Africa.

  2. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu:

    But all that is dependent on the cancellation of the visa requirement for our citizens, which is also an item in the agreement of March 18, if visa liberalization does not follow, we will be forced to back away from the deal on taking back (refugees) and the agreement of March 18.

  3. Vicki Cowart:

    We don't yet know the full circumstances and motives behind this criminal action, we share the concerns of many Americans that extremists are creating a poisonous environment that feeds domestic terrorism in this country. We will never back away from providing care in a safe, supportive environment that millions of people rely on and trust.

  4. Nathan Bell:

    I think it was more the price Star wanted to back away from, it may still be a bidder yet, as I’m sure the regulators would prefer a local operator to own our casino licenses.

  5. Jeff Tjornehoj:

    Not only did investors back away from domestic issues, but emerging-markets investors also read the tea leaves on higher interest rates, and they pulled money out.


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