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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I don't want to be left in the backwash when Gilson realizes the company's going bankrupt.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A backwash of heated air caressed Jaq's face.
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Although most directly affecting secondary schools, this constraint has a backwash effect on primary schools.
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But the development of continuing education must eventually have a backwash effect on initial professional education at the undergraduate stage.
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Perhaps the most important issue, however, is the possibility of causing curriculum backwash .
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Sterling was caught in the backwash of a run against the dollar.
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There is a backwash to all this, however: as a stage-show they are less than shadow-puppets on the wall.