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The phrase "authoritative back" is not a standard expression in written English and may cause confusion.
It could potentially be used in contexts discussing support or validation from a credible source, but it is not commonly recognized.
Example: "The report received an authoritative back from the leading experts in the field, lending it greater credibility."
Alternatives: "official endorsement" or "credible support".
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17th over: England 46-0 (Cook 29 Strauss 13) Another authoritative back foot shot from Cook, standing up on his tip-toes and swiveling his hips as he pulls four through backward square.
Did we not have the right authoritative back links?
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People at first simply talked without having any authoritative backing from reference books.
It is helpful to have such authoritative backing from the IPPR for a call I made on the prime minister this week.
But now she can point to an authoritative internal study backing up her intuition.
It's a good accent for a cop — contemptuous, authoritative, and intolerant of back talk.
Jones commands the room, unleashing her booming, authoritative alto while strutting back and forth in her three-inch heels, doing the Mashed Potato and the Funky Chicken, summoning wide-eyed young men from the audience to dance with her.
The leader of my breastfeeding group, a woman called Kate who looked like a retired folk singer and struck just the right note between mellow and authoritative, tried to push back against fanaticism, gently suggesting to one twin mother that waking three times in the night to pump milk was pushing her towards mental health issues.
A few weeks later, in December , 1992 it said the trough had occurred in March , 1991— thus giving some authoritative but very belated backing to Bush's campaign claims.
Highly authoritative voices, particularly in America, back up all the Big Pharma claims, their authority barely diminished by numerous scandals exposing undeclared pay-offs.
Diana Henry, another English cook, harks back to the quietly authoritative style of writers like Elizabeth David and Jane Grigson.
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