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Examples
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Crablike creatures with backward-facing human heads scrambled out from beneath abandoned cars.
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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If I sit in the forward- or backward-facing seats, my knees are jammed painfully up against the seat in front of me, unless I'm lucky enough to bag the front-row seat.
Where riders stand on Metro seating Robert Thomson 2011
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Crablike creatures with backward-facing human heads scrambled out from beneath abandoned cars.
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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Hachi is learning to think about others, not just herself, but based on her backward-facing reflections, the lesson came too late.
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Since this holds true as much for wine journalists as anyone else, I'll make my own backward-facing prediction: The hottest wine of 2012 will be Moscato.
Why You'll Be Drinking Moscato This Year Lettie Teague 2012
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He was seated across from her, in the backward-facing seat because he was too inured to discomfort to be bothered particularly by it and because he had no wish to add to her misery by crowding her on the other seat.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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He was seated across from her, in the backward-facing seat because he was too inured to discomfort to be bothered particularly by it and because he had no wish to add to her misery by crowding her on the other seat.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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A DESCRIPTION of the Orange Order as a "backward-facing, history-obsessed, parish pump society" has stirred controversy in relation to the Ulster Unionist's partnership talks with the Tories.
Not one of my best posts...! O'Neill 2008
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Here's my suggestion: craft a bunch of aluminum ramps with lockable backward-facing "C" - shaped clamps on the bottom (the students in my son's dorm could come up with these in about 48 hours.)
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Pender reversed the tape, then ran it forward in slow motion, freezing the image when a figure wearing a backward-facing baseball cap and a San Francisco 49ers jersey appeared briefly in the dark glass of the horizontal window over the bed, peering into the viewfinder of the camcorder balanced on his shoulder.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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