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back seat

noun

  1. a seat at the back, esp of a vehicle
  2. informal.
    a subordinate or inconspicuous position (esp in the phrase take a back seat )
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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On March 12 of this year, he was “pulled over while driving, his 5-year-old in the back seat. He was told his immigration status had changed.”

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The court has heard that they went on the run after police found a placenta on the back seat of their car, which had caught fire on the M62.

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Half a year before Justin died, she crashed while driving drunk with him in the back seat, unbuckled.

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While my daughter tried to calm our two panting pups in the back seat, I worried: else had I forgotten to save?

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Scientific nerdery gave way to virus conspiracies; climate change took a back seat to his longtime A.I. fears as his former nonprofit, OpenAI, achieved staggering successes; Tesla’s dangerous self-driving cars and dubious robotics earned priority over the electrification of transport.

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