backward-looking

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backward-looking

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not comparable Not progressive; concerned with the past rather than the present or future. [I]t is interesting to note that Sengupta includes over 120 similar out-of-date terms from the days of the Raj and before, thus revealing the extent to which the glossary is, in a sense, backward-looking, which is inconsistent with the fact that it is meant to be a supplement of a dictionary of "cur

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@misc{backward_looking_2026,
  title = {backward-looking},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/backward-looking},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}