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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forward you can only connect them looking backwards so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in

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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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And in these instances, the poem would come up on the page perfect and intact but backwards, from the last word to the first. (Laughter)

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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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It takes courage to do something that might seem like a step sideways or backwards to someone else. But you will never really know who you are or what you are capable of

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They are failing to see that in order to go forwards, we'd be wise to look backwards. Now the idea of learning from history,

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the capacity to think on multiple time horizons, both forwards and backwards. Now, of course, history has always been used and abused by those in power.

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let us be guided by the Maori proverb, "I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on the past." In fact, I invite you all to repeat it out loud after me, in Maori.

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