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go back

verb

  1. to return
  2. often foll by to to originate (in)

    the links with France go back to the Norman Conquest

  3. foll by on to change one's mind about; repudiate (esp in the phrase go back on one's word )
  4. (of clocks and watches) to be set to an earlier time, as during British Summer Time

    when do the clocks go back this year?

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The first is the stream of thought going back to Ross Ashby known as “management cybernetics,” which Davies clarifies.

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While abroad, Rawayana kept making music for those back home — going back to Venezuela when possible to play free concerts.

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At the end of the week, Kaitlyn went back to Los Angeles to pack her things and officially move out so we could explore something bigger.

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If she’s forced to go, Saucedo expects her sons’ father to take in her children while she goes back to her car or moves to Texas to stay with family.

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American politics had entered the age of television and there was no going back.

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