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Definitions for backfiring
back·fir·ing
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word backfiring.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of backfiring in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of backfiring in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of backfiring in a Sentence
I think that the White House has overreacted and overshot, and it's now backfiring. Big mistake.
I’ve always been a proponent of co-parenting and children first and it’s just kind of backfiring right now.
When the Syrian war first started, Erdogan's government wanted the downfall of the Assad regime, and without Western military intervention, it thought that these foreign fighters would turn the tide, now that strategy is backfiring as the Islamic State becomes more emboldened.
( It) sounded like a car backfiring, police began shouting and they started cordoning off the area.
They said that we were banning the word, that we were banning people, all things that aren’t true, i think that’s backfiring because the American people have woken up over the past five or six years and realized not to believe what you’re hearing. Do your own research.
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