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How to use the word BACKUP in a Sentence?

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Emergency contraception is incredibly safe and effective at preventing pregnancy when used in the right time frame, relationships are complicated. There can be situations where there isn’t access to emergency contraception or women might not ask the partner to use it. So being able to have access to one pill and a backup is a great idea.

Colleen Denny

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Relationships are complicated. There can be situations where there isn’t access to emergency contraception or women might not ask the partner to use it. So being able to have access to one pill and a backup is a great idea. i am in favor of expanding access, but this is a missed opportunity when a generic brand comes into the market with a high price barrier.

Kelly Cleland

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s like your power goes off in your house and you have a backup generator, but your backup generator isn’t working so well, we see the disease manifest at moments when Henry’s tank is running low. It could be when he’s too hot, tired from climbing upstairs, or he’s hungry or his brain was working too hard during therapy.

Mary Saladino

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s been a real struggle because it’s hard to provide a backup source of water to a whole community instead of one household.

Jessi Snyder

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The astonishing finding is that there’s a backup copy of the software in the body that you can reset, we’re showing why that software gets corrupted and how we can reboot the system by tapping into a reset switch that restores the cell’s ability to read the genome correctly again, as if it was young.

David Sinclair

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have confidence that we can count on Perseverance to bring the samples back, and we've added the helicopters as a backup means.

Jeff Gramling

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Once police have probable cause, and issue a specific individual a warrant, then that person is at risk from nearly all the apps on their phone that collect location and health data, at that point, there's a much broader list of concerns : Google location data, their search histories, their Apple health data, their device backups in iCloud if they use an iPhone or their Android device backup.

Fox Cahn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As far as the other stuff, the traffic stop, calling for backup, being polite to Patrick Lyoya, trying to persuade Patrick Lyoya to cooperate, chasing Patrick Lyoya, tackling Patrick Lyoya, none of those things will be perceived as violation of Grand Rapids policy.

Lewis Langham

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s wrong that we've let our Border Patrol agents suffer like this with no backup and terrible policies, these guys aren't asking for more money, not even more manpower, they're just asking for good policy.

Ohio Senate

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Carry a power bank [for] your phone, the kids’ devices, or noise-canceling earbuds for noisy flights, having a backup battery charger is an absolute must.

Rank Secure CEO Baruch Labunski

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Dog and I had our chance to say our goodbyes to Bob and Beth when they were sick, and we knew that they were going home, we got closure -- even though we still had to go through the grieving process, and we still had the heartbreak and the picking our lives backup -- we got to say goodbye.

Francie Chapman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think it's stupid, because Californians should vote on a backup. If Gov. Newsom loses the recall and Californians didn't consolidate around a backup Democrat, then you just guaranteed a win for a Republican.

Kevin Paffrath

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I can tell you that the first bill I'll file next year will be to mandate that nursing homes have backup generator power.

Kirk Talbot

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s part of being a backup quarterback, right? you’ve always got to be ready, ready to step in at any point. So that’s all it was today, just an opportunity to step in there and get some reps in there with the ones.

Garrett Gilbert

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

With the backup equipment and the other certified tabulation equipment not subpoenaed, the Board of Supervisors, Elections Department and Recorder's Office are working with our current vendor to replace the subpoenaed equipment so we will be able to serve voters for the November 2021 election.

Maricopa County

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They're trying to take these natural viruses and give them new capability. I do believe that they're doing that motivated by trying to be ahead of the game so that we can figure out what kind of countermeasures we need for if and when these pathogens ever became problematic. So I don't necessarily think you have to view this as something that is negative, i am concerned that the gain of function research, if it's done, needs to be in containment labs that are highly contained and have multiple backup capacity.

Shi Zhengli

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I mean Monte, the last two games the way he’s come up in the clutch in the fourth quarter, that’s so huge for us, i can’t say enough about that dude, just his composure, what he does for our team, it’s pretty amazing. Especially being a backup point guard, he’s stepping up on the biggest stage and showing what he’s capable of.

Michael Porter

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The ambition to have a high percent of weather-dependent renewables on the electrical grid is something I would question, the wind doesn’t blow all the time, the sun doesn’t shine all the time. And you’ve got to have backup systems for when that happens.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Unfortunately, a combination of the explosion and resulting water and fire damage took out a number of backup power generators intended to provide power to the batteries, that led to service disruptions across parts of Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama.

Jeff McElfresh

Found on CNN
3 years ago

People in general have very high anxiety as The Chicago Police Department relates to the upcoming election and we understand that, and we are focused on ensuring our officers will work to de-escalate to calm tensions so that everyone is comfortable exercising their right to vote, were also there to prevent lawlessness. There were be a zero tolerance( of) criminality during this time, and any time for that matter. He said intelligence suggests a peaceful weekend, butthat swift action will be taken against looters and anyone engaged in criminal behavior. Election officials are confident about the staffing in polling locations, said Marisel Hernandez, chairwoman of theChicago Board of Elections. More than 650,000 people in Chicago had voted as of Friday, Marisel Hernandez said. In addition, there was much support from voters ages 18 to 24 who have volunteered to serve as election judges, Marisel Hernandez said. Not only do we have the judges of election assigned, but we have backup judges of election, Marisel Hernandez said Friday at the news conference. Voters are required to wear masks, officials said. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP TheOffice of Emergency Management and Communications has conducted several training sessions to deal with coronavirus outbreaks, and protests related to the election, officials said.

Superintendent David Brown

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

That's my biggest concern by far : Is there an adequate backup plan ? i do think that Georgia has been doing a lot of things to improve from the debacle of the primaries -- particularly the Atlanta-area counties -- but I don't think they've done enough to be ready for this fall.

Larry Norden

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We have always been worried about Twitter and Facebook taking us offline and this serves as a backup.

Brad Parscale

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Hurt Beijing most ; Safeguard the strongest democracy in Asia ; Consolidate the backup force for long term fight.

Eddie Chu

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The states should have been building their stockpile. We have almost 10,000 in our stockpile and we've been building it, we've been supplying it. But the states should be building. We're a backup. We're not an ordering clerk.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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