How to Use rollback in a Sentence

rollback

1 of 2 noun
  • In May, Iowa’s Gov. Reynolds signed one of the most extreme rollbacks in the country.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
  • That rollback may have left an opening for smaller brands to enter the space.
    Brittany Martin, Outside Online, 9 June 2022
  • Walmart just launched a fall sale full of its famous rollback deals — and many of them simply cannot be missed.
    Ariel Scotti, Peoplemag, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The legendary Clevelander hotel and bar on Ocean Drive sued the city over the alcohol rollback last spring.
    David Fischer, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2022
  • Newsom told Politico and NBC the move was inspired in part by the rollback of gun safety measures by the courts.
    USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
  • Already there have been dire effects of the current rollback.
    Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Even at this speed, the rollback can cause wear and tear, as the motion and vibrations can put stress on the rocket—so the Artemis team doesn't want to roll in and out too many times.
    WIRED, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Walmart has all new rollbacks and flash deals on its website this week with items marked up to 65 percent off.
    Josie Howell | Jhowell@al.com, al, 13 Sep. 2023
  • This is higher than the forecast that prompted a rollback during Ian.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Walmart has added all new rollbacks and flash deals on its website this week with items marked up to 65 percent off.
    Josie Howell | Jhowell@al.com, al, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The consequences of the reproductive-rights rollback have been dire.
    TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The ruling was then reversed by a D.C. court judge earlier this year which gave the Department six weeks to prepare for the rollback.
    Luke Barr, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The data and model need to be aligned for replicability and rollback needs.
    Steven Gustafson, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • The increase in cases across China comes after the rollback of the nation's strict anti-virus controls.
    Arkansas Online, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Some of those rollbacks occurred just after mass shootings.
    Jake Zuckerman, cleveland, 11 July 2023
  • The agency will host a news conference today at 2 p.m. ET to discuss the rollback decision.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The rights regression and rollback is happening in real time.
    Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 30 May 2023
  • The country’s rapid rollback of Covid restrictions came soon after.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN, 19 Dec. 2022
  • But recently, Reynolds has spoken about her intent to pursue the six-week ban’s resurrection in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s rollback.
    Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 6 July 2022
  • Among Pai’s first acts as agency chief was to propose a rollback of the earlier net neutrality rules.
    Brian Fung, CNN, 26 Sep. 2023
  • His advice comes amid an uptick in cases following a rollback in measures aimed to slow the spread earlier in the pandemic.
    Byrick Klein,averi Harper, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Democrats have largely blamed this rollback of regulations for SVB’s demise.
    Lanhee J. Chen, CNN, 19 Mar. 2023
  • That may mean any sales tax rollback legislation is already doomed.
    Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 18 Mar. 2022
  • In practice, there's no guarantee a tax rollback would translate to a specific price cut for consumers.
    Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The rollback was greeted with both relief and apprehension.
    Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor dec. 13, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Today’s rollback in civil rights further links Wiley and Ben.
    Time, 29 July 2023
  • The rollback of federal funding will hit schools’ summer programs first.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2022
  • As the economy slides towards a recession, these unions are fighting to prevent a gig workers’ rights rollback.
    Wired, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Just over an hour after shepherding a rollback of future raises for the city clerk and treasurer, freshman Waukegan Ald.
    Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2023
  • This is demonstrated by the results of our in-depth study of the scores of first-mover companies—118 so far—that have publicly responded to last week’s Supreme Court rollback of a woman’s right to reproductive choice.
    Georgia Hirsty, Fortune, 30 June 2022
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roll back

2 of 2 verb
  • A day when the clock was rolled back on a lot of people’s lives.
    Shane Harris, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Some balls land on the green and stick, others roll back into the drink.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • In many respects, Bates promised on the campaign trail to roll back some of those changes.
    Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 22 July 2022
  • Now the clouds are lifting, the wallpaper is rolling back in waves.
    Meredi Ortega, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Cusk shows how stories gather weight and mass and cannot be rolled back.
    Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2024
  • But a few states, in fact, nine states, recently filed a motion to roll back these changes.
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Try easing up the pressure, then lightly roll back and forth over the muscle.
    Health Editorial Team, Health, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Hold here for three seconds, then roll back until your hips are over your knees.
    Emily Shiffer, Women's Health, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Here are five things to watch for as Congress rolls back to Washington for the end-of-the-year legislative sprint.
    Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Clocks roll back an hour this Sunday — to the chagrin of many Americans.
    Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Does Biden have a plan to roll back the new anti-American axis?
    Nr Editors, National Review, 20 Oct. 2023
  • In warm weather the ceiling over the top floor rolls back for the place to become an open-air deck beneath a canopy of patio lights.
    Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The fall of affirmative action is part of a 50-year campaign to roll back racial progress.
    Nikole Hannah-Jones Nikole Hannah-Jones Phoebe Zerwick Sam Apple Kwame Anthony Appiah Yotam Ottolenghi Jillian Steinhauer Peter C. Baker John Hodgman, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The Destiny 2 developer may need to roll back its servers, but how long has this exploit been in the game?
    Tom Warren, The Verge, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The lure will waddle and roll back and forth along the surface, creating its calling-card V wake.
    Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Later that year, Modi made a rare mea culpa and announced plans to roll back the reforms.
    Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • But the United States has not succeeded in compelling Iran to roll back the use of its asymmetric tools.
    Jon B. Alterman, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The country should roll back tariffs, strike more free trade deals with major economies and trade blocs, and cut back on the use of anti-dumping.
    Time, 28 July 2023
  • States are slowly starting to roll back some of the barriers for treatment.
    Sandhya Raman Cq-Roll Call (tns), al, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Those ties have held even as Beijing rolled back restrictions.
    Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Engage abs for stability, then roll back so weight shifts into heels and toes lift up off the floor.
    Angela Gargano, Lauren Del Turco, Women's Health, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The new law, which took effect July 1, is among efforts nationwide to roll back trans rights.
    John Hanna The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 1 Sep. 2023
  • And as concern over rising crime grows, a new initiative to roll back the proposition has emerged.
    Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2024
  • On top of that, they may be tempted to cut corners and roll back quality control just to reduce costs.
    Shi En Kim, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The White House is debating whether to roll back some of the Trump-era tariffs imposed on roughly $350 billion of Chinese goods.
    Mary Hui, Quartz, 21 June 2022
  • Unfortunately, the Fed isn't going to be able to roll back the clock here and bring back the low prices that many consumers remember.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 27 July 2022
  • Ukrainian troops have also employed mines to roll back Russian forces.
    Julie Tsirkin, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Though Delta rolled back some of those changes, additional ones will likely be announced in 2024.
    Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Just how many just how many regulations did Trump roll back and how quickly can Biden reverse them?
    Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2020
  • And also last year, the state of Arkansas rolled back their child labor protections.
    Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024

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