How to Use blowback in a Sentence
blowback
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The extent of the blowback on the U.S. is anyone's guess.
—Courtenay Brown, Axios, 16 Dec. 2024
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Even an act of grace gets a touch of blowback these days.
—Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 4 Aug. 2021
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Smith had to deal with blowback from both peers and strangers.
—Marcus Jones, EW.com, 14 July 2021
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Maui county has got to deal with the blowback on the recovery.
—Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023
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But the good thing has, in fact, put us in the situation that has caused this blowback.
—Patrick J. Deneen, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
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And there’s always a little bit of blowback that comes with that.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
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Hosts have to judge whether diners have complied, and to deal with any blowback.
—New York Times, 24 Sep. 2021
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Chase was asked about whether there was blowback from his comments.
—Irie Harris, cleveland, 10 Sep. 2023
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The blowback comes from some customers, a group of Democrats in Congress and civil rights groups.
—Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 25 Oct. 2024
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The Hall at that point could move on to other players without much blowback.
—Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2022
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The bad The Supreme Court reform grenade is already causing blowback, though.
—Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 July 2024
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Made in 2007, the film foreshadows the eventual blowback of the U.S. support of the mujahideen.
—Keith Staskiewicz, EW.com, 26 June 2024
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The vote was met with blowback from Democrats and gun-control advocates.
—Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 2023
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Lapses in judgement can happen in a split second, and the blowback for the brand and the harm done to the campaign can be enormous.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 17 June 2021
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If those who sought and issued this warrant don’t have their ducks in a row, then the blowback will be intense.
—Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2022
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Amid public blowback, the WTA went with a different bid this year.
—The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023
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But while the sanctions are aimed at Russia, Americans will feel some of the blowback.
—Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2022
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Few teams in this market have gone so far only to suffer such a bad case of blowback from the locals.
—Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
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The blowback against Philip Morris from the health-care community has been swift and harsh.
—Time, 12 Aug. 2021
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There also was concern about the blowback that would occur if such an airstrike went awry in any way.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2021
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The blowback in customer service jobs has been at times severe.
—Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Aug. 2021
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Public blowback may trigger greater volatility and lower growth for the first half of the year.
—Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2022
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The latest sanctions, as Biden has stated, could run into blowback on the U.S. this time as well.
—NBC News, 25 Feb. 2022
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There may be tinges of blowback from all of the outside interference in the district.
—cleveland, 24 July 2021
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So much so there’s been a lot of blowback for his recent public statement.
—ABC News, 12 May 2024
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In the wake of its full-scale attack of Ukraine, Russia has faced swift economic blowback.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 17 Mar. 2022
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Some of their comments on the Thrones front include their reaction to the blowback from the show’s 2019 final season.
—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2024
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But the blowback has been fierce after the viral video found its way to J.K. Rowling fans and transphobes over the past few weeks, Flom said.
—Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2023
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The mercurial billionaire does, however, have a history of deleting tweets after excessive blowback or just because.
—Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 3 Feb. 2025
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The president defended issuing mass pardons to the rioters charged, including violent offenders, a decision that has drawn heavy blowback from Democrats and criticism from some Republican lawmakers.
—Filip Timotija, The Hill, 22 Jan. 2025
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