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Anonymous Posted 6 years ago
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Backing down

What is backing down?

The era of untrammeled U.S. military superiority is over. If the United States delays implementing a new approach, it risks losing a war to China or Russia— or backing down in a crisis because it fears it would—with devastating consequences for America’s interests.

  

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The first step to discovering the answer to your question is to recognise that "backing down" is an inflection of the phrasal verb "back down". g. w=back+down ).

  • The first step to discovering the answer to your question is to recognise that "backing down" is an inflection of the phrasal verb "back down".
  • g.
  • w=back+down ).
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The first step to discovering the answer to your question is to recognise that "backing down" is an inflection of the phrasal verb "back down". Having established this, one can look up "back down" in any dictionary (e.g. https://www.onelook.com/?w=back+down).

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