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- adjective
Rearward . - adverb
Rearward .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb at or to or toward the back or rear
Etymologies
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Examples
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I'd heard this arrive earlier in the evening, and had thought it was my rearwards neighbor's old Suburban -- I figured she'd had her regular parking spot swiped, and was grabbing the spot outside of my north window.
Ever get the overwhelming urge to punch someone in the head? 2008
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Now, I do realize that we're all getting sick of looking back at 2009, and although I really would much prefer to be writing about looking forward to 2010, we simply must provide a final glance rearwards before moving on to prognosticating the future.
Chris Weigant: Dec. '09 Obama Poll Watch -- Below Fifty, But Stabilizing 2010
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Now, I do realize that we're all getting sick of looking back at 2009, and although I really would much prefer to be writing about looking forward to 2010, we simply must provide a final glance rearwards before moving on to prognosticating the future.
Chris Weigant: Dec. '09 Obama Poll Watch -- Below Fifty, But Stabilizing 2010
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So, Snob, you think bicycle advocacy is moving rearwards!
Backward Circles: Fight For No Right to Party BikeSnobNYC 2010
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An Althouse-favored convex mirror, viewing rearwards on today's bicycle commute.
Did you know I have the BhTV "safety tip of the day"? Ann Althouse 2009
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But rear-wheel-drive cars do have an inherent handling advantage: When the car's weight transfers rearwards under acceleration, this improves traction in those wheels that are driving the car.
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My name is Digby Poorwill, and I am studying the ability of avian fauna to move rearwards.
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Then the Moslem began to give ground and rearwards bent; and the Greek took possession of some of their tents; whereupon the
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It has already been stated that the lion and lioness copulate rearwards, and that these animals are opisthuretic.
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Sitting with his short legs astride a chair, which had been placed rearwards, his chin covered with a week's growth of black beard stubble, his small eyes peering like jet beads from under heavy eye-brows, meeting above a hooked nose, he was a
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