in back
idiom
: in an area at the back of something
The clerk brought out the item from the storeroom in back
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The study posits that the best chance for Kipyegon to break four minutes would be via drafting, or the use of pacesetters to help reduce wind resistance, with one pacesetter in front of her and another in back for the first half of the race.
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Jeré Longman, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
On one table was a giant human arm, part of a monument of Father Capodanno bound for Staten Island; in back was a plaster mold of the head of Martin Luther King, Jr., for a bust that sits in the Oval Office.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
The House settlement calls for former athletes to receive millions in back pay and also gives schools the option to distribute up to $20.5 million a year in payments to athletes for use of their name, image and likeness.
—Teresa M. Walker, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
Found in back of Mercedes SUV in Miami Police initially discovered El Taiger, whose birth name is José Manuel Carvajal Zaldívar, bleeding from the head with a gunshot wound in the back of 2023 Mercedes SUV at Northwest Ninth Avenue and 17th Street in Miami, just before 7 a.m. on Oct. 3.
—Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2025
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Jeré Longman, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
On one table was a giant human arm, part of a monument of Father Capodanno bound for Staten Island; in back was a plaster mold of the head of Martin Luther King, Jr., for a bust that sits in the Oval Office.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
The House settlement calls for former athletes to receive millions in back pay and also gives schools the option to distribute up to $20.5 million a year in payments to athletes for use of their name, image and likeness.
—Teresa M. Walker, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
Found in back of Mercedes SUV in Miami Police initially discovered El Taiger, whose birth name is José Manuel Carvajal Zaldívar, bleeding from the head with a gunshot wound in the back of 2023 Mercedes SUV at Northwest Ninth Avenue and 17th Street in Miami, just before 7 a.m. on Oct. 3.
—Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2025
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“In back.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20back. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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