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Meanings of blow-back in English
Unintended consequences of a covert operation that are suffered by the aggressor.
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Examples for "blowback"
Examples for "blowback"
1
Saudi Arabia is increasingly feeling the heat of the Sunni hardline blowback.
2
Honor your strength and dig in your heels to weather any blowback.
3
So here I am implementing those things and it's a blowback, he said.
4
The blowback from President Obama's interactive town hall has been intense and widespread.
5
I was choking on its blowback so I closed my mouth.
Usage of blow-back in English
1
He's got the hose in one hand, glove frozen stiff from blow-back.
2
There has been similar blow-back in Yemen and Somalia.
3
Intervening in that would be a gale-force political move generating fierce blow-back, already underway from Hayes's boss, LibDem energy secretary Ed Davey.
4
With its 1,300km border with Russia, Finland has been particularly worried about potential blow-back of the Ukraine-Russia standoff.
5
The flat-tiled roof has a pitch of only 9 degrees, which meant we have had leak (and blow-back) problems over its 15-year life.
6
"If the gun barrel is in tight contact with the skull, ectocranial beveling can be created by the blow-back of gases," LaManche said.
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