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  1. backing off

    Backbone is the 33rd studio album by British rock band Status Quo. It was released on 6 September 2019 and debuted at number six on the UK albums chart, making it the band's 25th UK top ten album and their highest-charting album of original material since 1+9+8+2 (1982). Backbone also entered the Swiss album charts at number two, and the German album charts at number six, giving the band their highest album chart position in the latter country, despite a long history of enduring popularity.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of backing off in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of backing off in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of backing off in a Sentence

  1. Jeremy Nell:

    I wonder if there is going to be some sort of chilling effect on cartoonists and satirists in general, kind of backing off from highly sensitive topics.

  2. Seijiro Takeshita:

    The current situation in Britain is just that — uncertainty, many are backing off.

  3. Daniel Russel:

    At times that has meant moving in Taipei's direction; at other times it has meant backing off demonstrations of support, now that a mini-trade deal has at last been reached with Beijing, Trump may have fewer qualms about letting his national security hawks demonstrate more visible backing for Taiwan.

  4. Vladimir Putin:

    The collective West does not plan on backing off its policy of economic pressure on Fortress Russia.

  5. Rick Santorum:

    I think if you compare it to President Obama's national security policy of backing off and giving people room to spread terrorism, which they've done, that weakness begets more aggressive activity, and I think that's clearly what happened here.


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