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if you back down about dinner again, I'm not going to agree to another date
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Trump won't back down on 'Central Park Jogger' case.
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Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2024
Learn from experience, and don’t back down or give in to someone trying to monopolize your time.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2024
The alarming number of book bans so far this year shows that the few who support censorship are not backing down.
—Anthony W. Marx, Dennis M. Walcott, TIME, 19 Oct. 2024
There would be no reason to suspect Courtney Williams had evolved into a stone-cold killer who will never back down from a big shot with the game in the balance, nor that Alanna Smith is a tenacious defender capable of locking down bigs who trump her in size.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2024
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Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2024
Learn from experience, and don’t back down or give in to someone trying to monopolize your time.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2024
The alarming number of book bans so far this year shows that the few who support censorship are not backing down.
—Anthony W. Marx, Dennis M. Walcott, TIME, 19 Oct. 2024
There would be no reason to suspect Courtney Williams had evolved into a stone-cold killer who will never back down from a big shot with the game in the balance, nor that Alanna Smith is a tenacious defender capable of locking down bigs who trump her in size.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2024
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“Back down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/back%20down. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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