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The phrase "abuse in the back of" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a situation where abuse is occurring or being remembered, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "There was a lingering sense of abuse in the back of her mind, haunting her thoughts."
Alternatives: "abuse lingering in the background" or "abuse hidden away".
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"Every experienced doctor would always have child abuse in the back of their mind.
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Another girl from the school was abused in the back of his Rolls-Royce.
1. Mauro Demetrio, 21, used his mobile phone to record PC Alex MacFarlane racially abusing him in the back of the van in August last year.
In police interviews Black made no admissions but outlined a "fantasy" of abducting and abusing young girls in the back of his van.
You end up heaping this abuse on yourself and in the back of your mind, you actually think that it's useful.
Three days later the Guardian revealed that officers accused of abusing or assaulting Demetrio in the back of a police van also allegedly assaulted a 15-year-old black teenager, Terelle Ferguson, on the same night.
"Theoretically you always have in the back of your mind that people may abuse [my lectures].
But as councillor Roy Gladden explains, others may be coin-operated booths in the back of a local nail salon or hairdressers, unregulated and open to abuse.
Mr. Mack found himself sitting in the back of the room with a 43-year-old man who said his parents had sexually abused him.
In the back of El Camaguey Meat Market.
It is a common experience that people who have been abused abuse in the same way back--repeating the abuse.
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