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Example sentences for: backwords
How can you use “backwords” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
I lived David Galef's “Backwords and Newances” [XVI,2], but he certainly is not a techie (from technician, usually electronic technician `one familiar with and capable of dealing with technology')
They aren't quite neologisms to account for new technology, like cryogenics or LED . Rather, they come from new technology looking back on old technology--and I've decided to call them backwords.
Wood-burning stove and handwritten note are two recent items for the backwords collection.
To distinguish them from backwords, they may be termed newances.
The one risk in collecting backwords is that it does tend to make one feel like an antiquity, possibly deserving of a backword oneself.
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