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• I thought my suggestions would be appreciated, but the backlash is more than I had bargained for.From the entry bargain for
• The steering system has so much backlash that it takes a full rotation of the wheel to exit its deadband and affect the steering.From the entry deadband
• Despite these positive strides, there has been backlash against what some perceive as the "wokification" of gaming.2024, Louisa Ben Saïd, Angad Singh Malik, The Gender Equality Quest in Video Games, page 68. From the entry wokification
• Despite the backlash, some Kardashian fans pushed back against the negativity.2022 July 1, J. Peterson, “Kim Kardashian divides Australian fans as 'disappointed' shoppers complain about her Skims clothing line being…. From the entry DJs
• Meanwhile, I faced backlashes from people within and outside the community on my style of drag.2021, Patruni Chidananda Sastry, My Experiment with Drag: Sexy, Sacred and Suffocated. From the entry dragphobia
• Has this prompted the kind of LGBTphobic backlash we sadly see in the real world?2020 February, “Queer Gaming Stories”, in Bi Community News, number 159. From the entry LGBTphobic
• A “wokelash”, I called it, a backlash designed to denounce Friends’s ageing values.2019 September 12, Polly Vernon, “I watched it at 22. I'm still watching it: Friends is the most-streamed show on Netflix, its jokes…. From the entry wokelash
• Mujtahidd's online claims have prompted an aggressive backlash against social media from the Saudi religious establishment.2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian. From the entry mufti
• She was a skulduggerer for Labour's 'Solidarity' group, the right-wing backlash against 'Bennism'.2004, George Galloway, I'm Not the Only One, London: Allen Lane, →ISBN, page 156. From the entry skulduggerer
• Rather, the business paparazzi is armoring itself for a backlash campaign against the entrepreneurial big mouths.2001, Geert Lovink, “The Rise and Fall of Dotcom Mania”, in Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture, MIT Press, published 2002…. From the entry paparazzi
• Ingloriously foundering in its own waste products, the backlash and bad karma of empire.1983, William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads, page 203. From the entry England
• The racist backlash was — needless to say — unwarranted, and incredibly ridiculous considering Ariel is a fictional, animated character.2026 April 7, Jada Gomez, “Halle Bailey Reveals How The Racist “Little Mermaid” Backlash Changed Her Forever, And It’s Actually Genius…. From the entry ridiculous
• A metaverse backlash, already fully rooted, began to bloom.2023 June 6, Ian Bogost, “The Age of Goggles Has Arrived”, in The Atlantic. From the entry hit the skids
• “What we're seeing now is this post-Dobbs backlash,” said Jessica Taylor, an analyst at the non-partisan Cook Political Report.2023 November 11, James Politi, Alex Rogers, quoting Jessica Taylor, “Democrats take heart from voter backlash against abortion curbs”, in…. From the entry post-Dobbs
• One of China’s most prominent e-commerce companies is facing intense public backlash over allegations that it overworks its employees.2021 January 13, Laura He and Nectar Gan, “Pinduoduo under fire as China turns on its tech titans”, in CNN. From the entry e-commerce
• Senior Tories might thus prefer to avoid a further public backlash over the loss of any of the BBC's channels.2011 June 2, “And now for something completely different”, in The Economist. From the entry salami tactics
• Back then, it was the conservative backlash to canon reformation that blew hot with the gusty rhetoric of politics.2010, Henry Louis Gates, Tradition and the Black Atlantic. From the entry gusty
• CHANNEL 7 has censored a lesbian kissing scene in its popular family soapie Home and Away after a viewer backlash.2009 March 28, Amanda Meade, “Seven censors lesbian kiss”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2009. From the entry soapie
• Cyberbegging has grown big enough for a backlash to start: Bosnak's appeal has spawned such cyber-responses as savekarynnot.com and dontsavekaryn.com.2002, Time, volume 160, page 29. From the entry cyberbegging
• An antikissing backlash has also been gathering some momentum.1977, Sexology: Volume 44. From the entry antikissing
• Woodward’s mild rebuke of Tatis received backlash from most players who spoke out, and even Woodward backtracked and reexplained himself the next day.2020 August 22, Adam Kilgore, “Baseball’s unwritten rules may be softening, but they haven’t gone away”, in The Washington Post. From the entry backtrack
• He evolved to connect the antifeminist ridicule of the New Woman to the growing backlash against male homosexuals, the Somdomites and inverts.2013, Doug Kirshen, Six Weeks—The New Man and the London Theatre Season of 1895: Henry James, Henry Irving, Oscar Wilde (thesis at…. From the entry antifeminist
• A backlash may have been inevitable.2013 January 18, Nicholas Kulish, “Swabian Separatists Fling Spätzle to Make Their Point”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry spaetzle
• Yet truth be told the most concentrated lesbiphobia and backlash—the kind that inspires compulsory silence—can be found among the multiracial, hip hop CD-purchasing public.2008, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women, →ISBN. From the entry lesbiphobia
• There has been a particularly acute white backlash or 'whitelash' in the United States against affirmative action programmes which promote women and black men.2001, Fiona Mackay, Love and Politics: Women Politicians and the Ethics of Care, Continuum, →ISBN, page 75; n. 3.. From the entry whitelash
• All the rocker arms have an automatic hydraulic adjustment, which ensures at all times that no backlash is present in the valve motion.1958 September, “Swindon's First Main-Line Diesel Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 601. From the entry rocker arm
• This backlash also fails to take into account that Israel, for all its faults, is a multicultural society where almost half of graduating doctors today are Arabs or Druze.2023 October 29, Thomas L. Friedman, “Please, Israel, Don’t Get Lost in Hamas’s Tunnels”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the…. From the entry arab
• Ministers in the Conservative government last week claimed that Labour “vilified” Britain's hard-pressed drivers—a jibe stemming from the backlash against London mayor Sadiq Khan’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez).2023 October 7, Jim Pickard, “It’s not government that creates jobs”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times…. From the entry ULEZ
• Some worry that releasing open-source generative A.I. models without guardrails could provoke a backlash among regulators and the general public that could damage the entire industry.2022 October 21, Kevin Roose, “A Coming-Out Party for Generative A.I., Silicon Valley’s New Craze”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry guardrail
• With the growth of Kinktok came backlash which instead of focusing on the community as a whole, focused on specific creators or fetishes that they deemed unacceptable and taboo.2022, Nic Cloyd, "Anti-Pornography Feminism, KinkTok, and Consent: What We Can Learn from The Sex Wars and Leather/Sadomasochistic…. From the entry KinkTok
• As Joan Rubin observes in The Making of Middlebrow Culture, the critical backlash against middlebrowism emerged as an eleventh-hour barrier against the erosion of highbrow authority.2021, John Howland, Hearing Luxe Pop, page 78. From the entry middlebrowism
• Whether the “Oprah effect” extends to influencing the outcome of a presidential race remains to be seen, but there are already signs of backlash from her audience.2016 [2008], Janice Peck, Age of Oprah: Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era, Routledge, →ISBN, page 224. From the entry Oprah effect
• Hopefully Grande has put the public backlash toward her “anti-obesity protest” behind her and will continue to be the mini-Mariah her screaming fans know and love.2015 August 9, Carly Maga, “The Top Ticket: Three shows to take in”, in Toronto Star, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page E3, column 4. From the entry Doughnutgate
• A new book defending vaccines, written by a doctor infuriated at the claim that they cause autism, is galvanizing a backlash against the antivaccine movement in the United States.2009 January 13, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “Book Is Rallying Resistance to the Antivaccine Crusade”, in The New York Times, archived from the…. From the entry antivaccine
• As quickly as bottled water became a symbol of healthy hyperindividualism — sort of an iPod for your kidneys — a backlash turned it into the devil’s drink.2008 June 15, Lisa Margonelli, “Tapped Out”, in New York Times. From the entry hyperindividualism
• In response to the backlash, OpenAI announced last week that it would begin allowing representatives of “recently deceased” public figures to request that their likeness be blocked from Sora videos.2025 October 17, Niamh Rowe, “‘Legacies condensed to AI slop’: OpenAI Sora videos of the dead raise alarm with legal experts”, in The…. From the entry likeness
• The Republican president is making a major political bet that his actions will not worsen inflation, cause financial aftershocks that could destabilize the worldwide economy or provoke a voter backlash.2025 February 1, Josh Boak, “Trump’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China could mean higher inflation and economic disruption”, in…. From the entry aftershock

Meaning of backlash

1. noun A suddenly reversed or backward motion, such as of a rope or elastic band when it snaps under tension.
2. noun A negative reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature.
3. noun The looseness through which one part of connected machinery, such as a wheel, gear, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, or a measurement of the distance moved thereby; either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).

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How do you use backlash in a sentence?

Backlash is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The public backlash to the proposal was quick and insistent.”

What is a short sentence with backlash?

“A backlash may have been inevitable.”

What does backlash mean?

Backlash means a suddenly reversed or backward motion, such as of a rope or elastic band when it snaps under tension.