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pull back

verb pulls back · pulling back · pulled back

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, back. Her nightgown was thin, and she felt chilly as she stepped across the hall, pulling back the curtain that shielded Gabriel's room.
To retreat. Central African armed forces (FACA) troops were forced to pull back from the town and were planning an operation to retake it, the source said.
transitive To pass (the ball) into a position further from the attacking goal line. December 1 2010, Paul Fletcher, BBC News, Ipswich 1-0 West Brom Jason Scotland should have scored after Tamas advanced purposefully down the right before pulling the ball back into the path of his team-mate, who shot straight at Myhill.
transitive To score when the team is losing. Feb 19 2007, Al-Jazeera, Stylish Sevilla pull level with faltering Barcelona Ronaldinho pulled back a goal for Barca in injury time with a classy free-kick, but it was clearly too little too late to prevent their third Liga defeat.

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@misc{pull_back_2026,
  title = {pull back},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pull%20back},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}