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- verb   Present participle of back-bite .
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								It has deteriorated into back-biting, name-calling, you-too partisanship, and worse. The Volokh Conspiracy » Miguel Estrada Writes in Support of Elena Kagan’s Confirmation 2010 
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								It has deteriorated into back-biting, name-calling, you-too partisanship, and worse. The Volokh Conspiracy » Miguel Estrada Writes in Support of Elena Kagan’s Confirmation 2010 
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								And do not demean your own leaders -- stop the back-biting and competition that so often drives the most creative thinkers and activists out of the movement! Rabbi Michael Lerner: 10 Commandments to Revive Progressives After the November Defeat Rabbi Michael Lerner 2010 
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								It has deteriorated into back-biting, name-calling, you-too partisanship, and worse. The Volokh Conspiracy » Miguel Estrada Writes in Support of Elena Kagan’s Confirmation 2010 
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								And do not demean your own leaders -- stop the back-biting and competition that so often drives the most creative thinkers and activists out of the movement! Rabbi Michael Lerner: 10 Commandments to Revive Progressives After the November Defeat Rabbi Michael Lerner 2010 
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								But this silly back-biting wouldn't be that troubling on its own. Are Treasury's Knives Coming Out Against Elizabeth Warren? Zach Carter 2010 
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								Any serious study into the Edwardian era will unearth a stunning array of double-dealing, back-biting, secret treaties, war-mongering, and imperialistic dreams between European, American, and Asian nations, which resulted in tension so thick, you could cut with it a rattling saber. 
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								Goldman staff, just like their peers at lesser firms, live in a back-biting world of ambitious bankers who would elbow their best friends in the face to get the corner office. Myth-breaker charts the tarnishing of the Goldman image 2011 
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								Any serious study into the Edwardian era will unearth a stunning array of double-dealing, back-biting, secret treaties, war-mongering, and imperialistic dreams between European, American, and Asian nations, which resulted in tension so thick, you could cut with it a rattling saber. Serio-Comic Maps of International Tensions | Edwardian Promenade 2010 
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								And do not demean your own leaders -- stop the back-biting and competition that so often drives the most creative thinkers and activists out of the movement! Rabbi Michael Lerner: 10 Commandments to Revive Progressives After the November Defeat Rabbi Michael Lerner 2010 
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