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- verb Present participle of
backfire .
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Examples
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The ads are backfiring, which is a new development for Canada.
Don Tapscott: The Obama Effect -- Political Attack Ads Backfiring for Canada's Prime Minister 2009
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The ads are backfiring, which is a new development for Canada.
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In Journey's End, the 'backfiring' principle destroyed the Daleks - we saw the ray kill humans and it was then used to kill Daleks.
Torchwood: CoE one more time rabid1st 2009
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The other option really scares me, so I guess their fear tactics are kind of backfiring on them in a weird way.
Girl fight! 2008
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Other cells that are kind of backfiring here across eastern parts of Texas.
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This will help your cause at attempting to sound intellegent and "backfiring" at me.
unknown title 2009
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Yumi Kikuchi's talk reviewed videos/books by many from the Truth Movement and reinforced the need to expose Truth for sake of Peace, while at the same time making a gripping point regarding the sickeningly ironic "backfiring" of the so-called "War on Terror" which creates more terrorists than it subdues and tragically kills and maims so many innocent lives around the world.
911Blogger.com - Paying Attention to 9/11 Related News Aus911Truth 2009
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Seems someone took a couple things you said in your posts a tad personally, sad really…that it should come to this, kind of backfiring on them now, i’d say.
suspendered 2006
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ROVNER: But that strategy, a slow education process, may be backfiring.
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ROVNER: But that strategy, a slow education process, may be backfiring.
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