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The phrase "ability to backtrack" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the capacity to retrace steps or revisit previous decisions or actions, often in problem-solving or decision-making contexts.
Example: "The software's ability to backtrack allows users to undo mistakes easily and restore previous versions of their work."
Alternatives: "capacity to retrace" or "skill to revert".
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Dogs are well known for their ability to backtrack to a beloved home — or person.
Best First search is similar to greedy search in that it creates new subsets based on the addition or removal of genes to the current subset with the ability to backtrack along the subset selection path to explore different possibilities when the current path no longer shows improvement.
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Schulz says admitting wrongness or ignorance is a high-level cognitive ability; we require "internal flexibility and communal permission to backtrack and revise".
He had to backtrack.
I refused to backtrack.
Mitterrand was forced to backtrack.
Bush eventually had to backtrack.
Now I have to backtrack".
He then appears to backtrack.
He later tried to backtrack.
So British politicians are beginning to backtrack.
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