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back down

verb

intr, adverb to withdraw an earlier claim
tr rowing to cause (a boat) to move backwards by pushing rather than pulling on the oars

noun

abandonment of an earlier claim

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Stocks surged after President Trump on Wednesday abruptly backed down on his tariffs on most nations for 90 days.

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“Then, I just flopped back down on my back and experienced this overwhelming feeling of absolute bliss,” Leier, an ethicist at the University of Alberta in Canada, told Salon in a phone interview.

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The German led Norwich to promotion from the Championship twice, but they went straight back down the first time and he was sacked in the November of the second Premier League campaign.

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A huge summer awaits as Leeds look to buck the worrying trend that appears set to see all of the past six teams promoted to the Premier League go straight back down.

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"Some unhinged lunatic, a man, wearing daisy dukes, at a makeup store, got in my face today. Dems are nuts. So I went off - and I won’t be backing down," she captioned the post.

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