back arrow

noun

Examples of back arrow in a Sentence

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Tap Done or the back arrow to save your settings. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2025 Anytime the back arrow is hit, you’re dropped back to the search bar instead of back to, say, a list of brackets or a tournament home page. Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025 Tap the back arrow in the upper left-hand corner of the screen to exit. Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2023 To get back to the standard feed, tap the back arrow in the top left. John Kennedy, Popular Science, 24 Jan. 2023 Hit the back arrow on the settings screen and get back to the main Privacy page. Washington Post, 15 July 2021 When introduced in 2019, once the list of available plans appeared, the only way to return to the drug or pharmacy pages was to click the back arrow. Diane Omdahl, Forbes, 11 May 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1980, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of back arrow was in 1980

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“Back arrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/back%20arrow. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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