How native speakers pronounce “backwards”

I was in college but it was very very clear looking backwards 10 years later again you can't connect the dots looking

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What we found is that even when we're talking to someone who just lost a negotiation to us, we tend to bend over backwards. We say things like,

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It's when you're on a path, you're moving forward, and you are unexpectedly bumped backwards. Through all my years as a journalist,

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(Laughter) I want you all to count backwards from 996 in increments of seven.

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She would catch the poem by its tail, and she would pull it backwards into her body as she was transcribing on the page.

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is surviving the fall. Jumping off a cliff is taking a giant step backwards into the land of being a beginner again.

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