Examples of back off in a Sentence
you'd better not back off on your promise to do all the planning for the big dance
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The new restrictions follow an NPR report that Trump had backed off from pursuing the H20 controls, in exchange for Nvidia investing in data centers.
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2025
Even if investors are slightly more confident this week, after Trump backed off most of his harshest tariff rates, the changes in people’s life-style habits serve as their own kind of affective barometer.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2025
Lawmakers proposed requiring such facilities to repay deposits, but backed off when retirement community operators warned such measures would jeopardize their business.
—Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
Che then noted how Musk last weekend made a personal appeal to Trump to back off on the tariffs.
—William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2025
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2025
Even if investors are slightly more confident this week, after Trump backed off most of his harshest tariff rates, the changes in people’s life-style habits serve as their own kind of affective barometer.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2025
Lawmakers proposed requiring such facilities to repay deposits, but backed off when retirement community operators warned such measures would jeopardize their business.
—Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
Che then noted how Musk last weekend made a personal appeal to Trump to back off on the tariffs.
—William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2025
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“Back off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/back%20off. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.
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