How to Use rollback in a Sentence

rollback

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  • Juneteenth will find its place among the racial unrest, the good, the bad, the progress, the rollback.
    — Lisa Vernon Sparks, Charlotte Observer, 19 June 2024
  • In fact, what if a 10% home-price rollback does not help?
    — Pat Kapowich, The Mercury News, 25 May 2024
  • In May, Iowa’s Gov. Reynolds signed one of the most extreme rollbacks in the country.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Its rollback has been a slower process, but a welcome and healthy one.
    — The Editors, National Review, 16 May 2024
  • That rollback may have left an opening for smaller brands to enter the space.
    — Brittany Martin, Outside Online, 9 June 2022
  • Relative to those programs, the rollback in the child tax credit is small.
    — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The new rollback sets the state even further behind, likely to the detriment of ratepayers statewide.
    — Cynthia Koehler, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Walmart just launched a fall sale full of its famous rollback deals — and many of them simply cannot be missed.
    — Ariel Scotti, Peoplemag, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The legendary Clevelander hotel and bar on Ocean Drive sued the city over the alcohol rollback last spring.
    — David Fischer, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2022
  • Newsom told Politico and NBC the move was inspired in part by the rollback of gun safety measures by the courts.
    — USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
  • Already there have been dire effects of the current rollback.
    — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Even at this speed, the rollback can cause wear and tear, as the motion and vibrations can put stress on the rocket—so the Artemis team doesn't want to roll in and out too many times.
    — WIRED, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Walmart has all new rollbacks and flash deals on its website this week with items marked up to 65 percent off.
    — Josie Howell | Jhowell@al.com, al, 13 Sep. 2023
  • This is higher than the forecast that prompted a rollback during Ian.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Walmart has added all new rollbacks and flash deals on its website this week with items marked up to 65 percent off.
    — Josie Howell | Jhowell@al.com, al, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The consequences of the reproductive-rights rollback have been dire.
    — TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The rollback of women’s rights is not restricted to Europe.
    — Linda Robinson, Foreign Affairs, 3 July 2024
  • Mayor Todd Gloria has left leadership of the possible rollback of the city’s granny flat rules to Elo-Rivera.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2021
  • The ruling was then reversed by a D.C. court judge earlier this year which gave the Department six weeks to prepare for the rollback.
    — Luke Barr, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Biden had campaigned with the vow of a fast rollback of many of the toughest policies imposed on Cuba by President Trump.
    — Tracy Wilkinson Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The data and model need to be aligned for replicability and rollback needs.
    — Steven Gustafson, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • The increase in cases across China comes after the rollback of the nation's strict anti-virus controls.
    — Arkansas Online, 29 Dec. 2022
  • But many Afghans, especially women, are deeply skeptical and fear a rollback of rights gained over the last two decades.
    — Kathy Gannon, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2021
  • But many Afghans, especially women, are deeply skeptical and fear a rollback of rights gained over the past two decades.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Where Uruguay and Brazil are seeing a surge, Argentina and Mexico fear a rollback.
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 12 May 2024
  • Some of those rollbacks occurred just after mass shootings.
    — Jake Zuckerman, cleveland, 11 July 2023
  • Still, activists and leaders are not letting the rollbacks happen in silence.
    — Ayen Deng Bior, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2024
  • What’s on the ballot The ballot includes the three bond propositions, a tax rollback, mayor and city council races and Northwest school board places.
    — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 May 2024
  • Each week, Walmart workers add price tags on new items, rollbacks and markdowns, a time-consuming and repetitive process.
    — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 20 June 2024
  • The Black community was afraid the civil rights gains would experience a rollback.
    — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 20 June 2024
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roll back

2 of 2 verb
  • A day when the clock was rolled back on a lot of people’s lives.
    — Shane Harris, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Some balls land on the green and stick, others roll back into the drink.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • In many respects, Bates promised on the campaign trail to roll back some of those changes.
    — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 22 July 2022
  • Now the clouds are lifting, the wallpaper is rolling back in waves.
    — Meredi Ortega, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • But when Nadal took the fifth game of the second set, time seemed to suddenly roll back.
    — Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 29 July 2024
  • Cusk shows how stories gather weight and mass and cannot be rolled back.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2024
  • But a few states, in fact, nine states, recently filed a motion to roll back these changes.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Try easing up the pressure, then lightly roll back and forth over the muscle.
    — Health Editorial Team, Health, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Hold here for three seconds, then roll back until your hips are over your knees.
    — Emily Shiffer, Women's Health, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Here are five things to watch for as Congress rolls back to Washington for the end-of-the-year legislative sprint.
    — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Clocks roll back an hour this Sunday — to the chagrin of many Americans.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Does Biden have a plan to roll back the new anti-American axis?
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 20 Oct. 2023
  • In warm weather the ceiling over the top floor rolls back for the place to become an open-air deck beneath a canopy of patio lights.
    — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The fall of affirmative action is part of a 50-year campaign to roll back racial progress.
    — Nikole Hannah-Jones Nikole Hannah-Jones Phoebe Zerwick Sam Apple Kwame Anthony Appiah Yotam Ottolenghi Jillian Steinhauer Peter C. Baker John Hodgman, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The Destiny 2 developer may need to roll back its servers, but how long has this exploit been in the game?
    — Tom Warren, The Verge, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The lure will waddle and roll back and forth along the surface, creating its calling-card V wake.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Later that year, Modi made a rare mea culpa and announced plans to roll back the reforms.
    — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • But the United States has not succeeded in compelling Iran to roll back the use of its asymmetric tools.
    — Jon B. Alterman, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The country should roll back tariffs, strike more free trade deals with major economies and trade blocs, and cut back on the use of anti-dumping.
    — Time, 28 July 2023
  • States are slowly starting to roll back some of the barriers for treatment.
    — Sandhya Raman Cq-Roll Call (tns), al, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Those ties have held even as Beijing rolled back restrictions.
    — Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Engage abs for stability, then roll back so weight shifts into heels and toes lift up off the floor.
    — Angela Gargano, Lauren Del Turco, Women's Health, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The new law, which took effect July 1, is among efforts nationwide to roll back trans rights.
    — John Hanna The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 1 Sep. 2023
  • And as concern over rising crime grows, a new initiative to roll back the proposition has emerged.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2024
  • On top of that, they may be tempted to cut corners and roll back quality control just to reduce costs.
    — Shi En Kim, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The White House is debating whether to roll back some of the Trump-era tariffs imposed on roughly $350 billion of Chinese goods.
    — Mary Hui, Quartz, 21 June 2022
  • Unfortunately, the Fed isn't going to be able to roll back the clock here and bring back the low prices that many consumers remember.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 27 July 2022
  • The vaccine funding is ending as Medicaid is being rolled back across the U.S.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 22 May 2024
  • Ukrainian troops have also employed mines to roll back Russian forces.
    — Julie Tsirkin, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The violent response from Hasina’s government only added further fuel to the fire, even as quotas were rolled back.
    — Lex Harvey, CNN, 14 Aug. 2024

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