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back off

verb

  1. intr to retreat
  2. tr to abandon (an intention, objective, etc)
“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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"Then they became annoyed at our constant questions, so eventually we had to back off and just pray."

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They said the army had intervened and the settlers had backed off.

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"They wandered back off into the bush together completely unharmed," she wrote.

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Her caption in the now-deleted post read: "My dream of holding a wombat has been realised! Baby and mom slowly waddled back off together into the bush."

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“The SEC is going to back off — because that’s what the Trump administration wants — on whatever enforcement they are able to do. I think it’s a very worrisome situation.”

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