backtrack
Use Backtrack in a sentence
verb (used without object)
1.
to return over the same course or route.
2.
to withdraw from an undertaking, position, etc.; reverse a policy.
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| —vb | |
| 1. | to return by the same route by which one has come |
| 2. | to retract or reverse one's opinion, action, policy, etc |
| 'backtracking | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
It was better to backtrack, every move elegantly reversed, than to climb in a clumsy or scrappy way.
If the expedition had followed your advice, they would have had to backtrack, losing precious summer travel days.
In her first run, she missed a gate and had to backtrack to go through.
The global warming alarmists continue to backtrack in the face of some real research and real science.
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