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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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They can see I love birds and that I wanna go back to it.

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When asked by the moderator, “Does anybody say: If I had to go back, I would have voted differently?”

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The memo notes that Musk’s companies have received more than $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits going back more than 20 years.

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“It goes back to the status quo, which wasn’t working, which is why the Equity Bureau got created in the first place.”

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She recently went back to university, but says staff have not been able to put in the measures that would make her feel safe.

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