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- adjective idiomatic Having low
urgency ; not currently important.
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Examples
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She keeps her “mission” on the back-burner of her mind, content to browse the stores and enjoy her journey.
Daily Readings from Love Your Life Victoria Osteen 2011
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How the war evolved into nation building and being put on the back-burner you'd have to ask the Bush Administration. mjm
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Police officers and innocent civilians are dying every single day in this drug war; it's not a back-burner issue.
Obama: Drug Legalization 'Worth A Serious Debate' Ryan Grim 2011
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She put a human face on a back-burner issue and turned it into a front page issue.
Don McNay: A Beginner's Guide to Stopping Payday Lenders Don McNay 2011
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Former human rights advocate Ignatieff will, if elected, back-burner the Tibetans, Uighurs and democratic activists in favour of increased trade.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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Leonsis discussed the issue at length Tuesday on DC101's Elliot in the Morning, and the upshot is that any consideration here is of the back-burner variety.
Leonsis says he's "punting" on Wizards name change Dan Steinberg 2010
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Said the preternaturally youthful looking Meyer about raising kids: “A lot of who I was and my crazy imagination … that person was on the back-burner.”
TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS NOV 14TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2009
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Most scientists are relegating it to the back-burner until some method of testing becomes available. chunkdz: Yes, a hypothesis that is not readily falsifiable is not scientific.
Attached to Strings 2009
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There's some revising to do, but that can happen on the back-burner as focus shifts back to The Wheel of Time.
Summer Is Over mistborn 2009
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She put a human face on a back-burner issue and turned it into a front page issue.
Don McNay: A Beginner's Guide to Stopping Payday Lenders Don McNay 2011
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