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left behind¹

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of leave behind

Left Behind²

noun Left Behinds · left-behind

  1. A usually socially conservative member of the working class whose income is stagnating or falling in purchasing power. For the Left Behinds, Kennedy was evoking the most traditional values: patriotism, discipline, sacrifice for the common welfare.

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@misc{left_behind_2026,
  title = {left behind},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/left%20behind},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}