The phrase "a walking back" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where someone is retracting or reversing a previous statement or action, but it is not commonly recognized.
Example: "After much criticism, the politician issued a walking back of his earlier comments on the issue."
Alternatives: "a retraction" or "a reversal".
The sixth of December [was] a reversal, a walking back, a reneging from a very clear promise.
President Obama campaigned on a walking back from the Middle East.
It seems like there's been a walking back of certain issues, so we're not really sure which campaign promises will be fulfilled and which will go away," Clark said.
Ms. Schorr sees the simulation, which shows a frog and a clown walking back and forth across a plane, as an intuitive introduction to calculus that does not require what she called "formal symbol structure".
But this omission is more a furtive walking back of bad advice than a public acknowledgment of error, Teicholz said.
A State Department spokeswoman walked back Kerry's first slip, but once the White House realized it was the only emergency exit sign around, Kerry walked back the walking back, claiming at a Congressional hearing Tuesday that he did not "misspeak".
Instead of taking a Lyft back he has us WALKING BACK after lunch.
Saturday 11 a.m. 4) WALKING BACK IN TIME Study a mile of the city's most important architecture.
On a walking tour back in his native Lake District, Wordsworth stumbled across a former pub in Grasmere, which, renamed Dove Cottage, became a home for him, his sister, his wife Mary Hutchinson, and their children.
Soon after, you'll be running (not walking) back to the beach for an afternoon in the sun.
I had an agent at Delaware [Park racecourse] say: 'You could lose by a nose or win by 10 lengths and you look exactly the same walking back to the jocks room, showing no emotion at all.' It's hard to explain what I'm so focused about".
