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Definition of Backdowns
1. backdown [n] - See also: backdown
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backdowns
Literary usage of Backdowns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life and Times of Andrew Jackson: Soldier--statesman--president by A S Colyar (1904)
"THE BATTLE OF THE FIRST OF JANUARY STILL VICTORY A TERRIBLE WOUND MAKES LIFETIME
FRIENDS JACK- SON'S TWO "backdowns" ..."
2. CIA and Vietnam Policymakers: Three Episodes, 1962-1968 by Harold P. Ford (1999)
"Despite the Agency's backdowns on this issue—in Saigon and in SNIE 14.3-67— most
CIA analysts working on Vietnam continued to judge that the true totals of ..."
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