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go back to square one

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of go back to square one in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of go back to square one in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of go back to square one in a Sentence

  1. Nyabuto John Kiyondi:

    She was assisting me financially to educate her siblings, particularly in terms of school fees and other expenses. I'm stuck now and back to square one. I'm wondering how her younger siblings will continue schooling.

  2. Andreas Harsono:

    Groups can not track or see who has HIV. Facilities [ for prevention and treatment ] are disappearing. We going back to the 1990s in terms of HIV prevention programs, back to square one.

  3. Wijarn Simachaya:

    The large increase is very concerning, what progress we've made on the campaign against single-use plastic has gone back to square one.

  4. Paolo Brügger:

    A lot of people are asking themselves now, ‘Is this going to be like this every year — when we get into the cold season, we have a new variant, and we are back to square one?’.

  5. Scott Gottlieb:

    I don't think it will be a new variant that sweeps across the globe and we're back to square one here, i think this is something that will probably push in the direction of eventually reformulating our vaccines, because what we're seeing is the new mutations are occurring with that Delta lineage.

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