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How to pronounce backtrack in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms double back, turn back
Type of return

Examples of backtrack

backtrack
Backtrack and find the path to Beach Rd which drops down towards Milford Marina.
From the nzherald.co.nz
He says he worries the latest financial crisis could cause Beijing to backtrack.
From the voanews.com
It is not the first time that CNN has been forced to backtrack on breaking news.
From the guardian.co.uk
I had to backtrack and reread to be certain the use of Lovelace referred to Ada.
From the en.wikipedia.org
And at this point there is no reason to think it is going to have to backtrack.
From the dailyherald.com
Researchers around the globe have had to backtrack and try to master that feat.
From the signonsandiego.com
However, the Tory right say they will not allow Cameron to backtrack on the veto.
From the guardian.co.uk
The backlash was fast and furious and Microsoft had to respond, and backtrack.
From the techcrunch.com
Salazar said Ryback previously offered support, but appeared to backtrack Tuesday.
From the dailyherald.com
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  • Retrace one's course; "The hikers got into a storm and had to turn back"
  • BackTrack is a GNU/Linux distribution distributed as a Live DVD aimed at forensics use and penetration testing.
  • Catchfire is a 1990 action-thriller-drama film starring Jodie Foster, Dennis Hopper, and Fred Ward. Several other notable actors have cameos. The film was disowned by its director, Hopper, before release and he is therefore credited under the fictional pseudonym Alan Smithee. ...
  • BackTrack is a monthly magazine, published by Pendragon Publishing, concentrating on researched articles and photographic features about British and Irish railway history. ...
  • Backtrack is a western novel by Milton Lott, published in 1965. The book is about a cattle drive from Texas to Montana, and features cowboy Ringo Rose and a Mexican boy whom he fathers. He teaches the kid skills he needs to survive, including gunfighting. ...
  • Backtracking is a general algorithm for finding all (or some) solutions to some computational problem, that incrementally builds candidates to the solutions, and abandons each partial candidate c ("backtracks") as soon as it determines that c cannot possibly be completed to a valid solution.
  • (Backtracks (AC/DC album)) Backtracks is a box set by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It was announced on September 29, 2009 and was released on November 10, 2009 . This is a collection of the band's studio and live rarities together in one boxset. ...
  • The act of backtracking; to retrace one's steps; to repeat or review work already done; To taxi down an active runway in the opposite direction to that being used for takeoff
  • (Backtracking) In order to make parse tables more compact and parsers faster, it is common to use default reductions. In case of error, it is necessary to undo default reductions before diagnostics can be properly determined. In AnaGram, this undo operation is called backtracking.