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back and forth
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back and forth
if someone or something moves back and forth between two places, they move from one place to the other place again and again. Nurses went back and forth among the wounded, bringing food and medicine.
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However, power brushes that move in a back-and-forth motion were not any more effective at reducing plaque and gum disease than manual brushes.
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This back-and-forth motion is an apt metaphor for the state of heightened awareness one achieves when attempting to reconcile the "opposed ideas" in any of Rosen's works.
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But beginning on June 23, 2001, B15A skittered westward for several days before becoming stuck again about 5 km away and resuming its small, back-and-forth movements.
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