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Discover LudwigThe phrase "backward step" is correct and usable in formal and informal written English.
This phrase can be used when describing a situation that has moved in a retrograde direction, or a decision or action taken with the intention of returning to a previous state. For example: "After weeks of progress, the company took a backward step when they decided to cancel the new marketing campaign."
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"This is a backward step".
This is also a backward step.
How do we explain this backward step?
Do not consider this a backward step on Gleeson's part.
Now she has taken a huge backward step.
Conservationists said the moves were a huge backward step.
You can't afford to take a backward step".
We never want to take a backward step.
In some respects, this is a backward step.
"I think it's a huge backward step," he said.
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