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View synonyms for look back

look back

verb

  1. to cast one's mind to the past
  2. never look back
    to become increasingly successful

    after his book was published, he never looked back

  3. to pay another visit later
“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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But pause for a second, and look back at what these generations of regulators and lawmakers have created.

Are future historians going to look back on the past weekend as the one in which Elizabeth Warren took over the Democratic Party?

I think if you look back at Season 2, there are certain little elements that come out.

Here are seven she can look back on as she weathers the attacks of the next presidential cycle.

But it might, when we look back at the stellar performances young Hollywood produced this year, end up being ridiculous.

He did not once look back at her; his face seemed full of thought, his hands acting as it were mechanically.

Once safely out of the ruins, Harris collected himself and turned to look back.

Yet, I dare say there are some who, still attending the fair, look back with regret on the disappearance of the good old days.

I called to him loudly, in the vain hope he might look back, as though at a time like this a hound would turn from the trail.

A daughter like that, she said, and she turned to look back at you; you were standing still with the leaves in your hand.

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