Alternative forms

• (UK) backpedalling

Verb

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1. (USCategory:American English#BACKPEDALING) present participle and gerund of backpedal

Noun

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1. The act of distancing oneself from a previously supported idea, action, behaviour, etc.; a U-turn or flip-flop.
   • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 3:

     Despite the swift backpedalling of the university, the original notice given to stall operators is suggestive of the potential existence of ‘a growing English-speaking elite’ that is ‘happy to maintain the importance of the English language’.

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