blowback
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- noun
- /ˈbloʊˌbæk/
- Literature
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reacción negativa
- The government was unprepared for the blowback resulting from its new policy changes.
- get blowback
- a lot of blowback
- political blowback
When you do that, you are going to get the blowback right in your face.
- When you do that, you are going to get the blowback right in your face.
- It's like, have you gotten a bunch of negative blowback like that?
- They had to have, they had to be willing to take whatever the social blowback was if they didn't behave well.
- So I thought about the counter arguments and the blowback related to AI before I launched this competition.
- There'd be too much blowback because I think that Americans are fundamentally decent people.
- So look, I think that the Republicans have been scrambling only because they can't quite believe the blowback.
- Then mid tweet, seeming to sense the blowback, tried to rationalize his terrible anti-Semitism by repre budding.
- And and the blowback was severe and caused a lot of lot of fucking heartache for me.
- It could have been much, much worse just in terms of, you know, the, the blowback that that could have come from, from working in those conditions.
- And if we can't get one, we need to push back by refusing to vote for the people who send our troops off to murder civilians and create blowback.
- And I noticed that my female friends in the UK, for instance, who have tackled certain issues I've tackled, get a horrible amount of of blowback.
- But now, now we've got to deal with the blowback of, or basically the problems that Western countries have caused by getting involved.
- Chances are I will get blowback for creating this video, but in my coaching programs, women ask this all the time.
- It's over that and then you deal with a blowback.
- And so then we come to the next benefit of keto, and I call them the blowback benefits, right?
- Yeah, I think I think part of the blowback is because the lead singer was a adult man with curly blonde hair and.
Examples
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Several factors could make blowback from the Iraq war even more dangerous than the fallout from Afghanistan.
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There's gonna be some blowback from the Korean community on this one.
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When you do that, you are going to get the blowback right in your face.
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I think, you know, the blowback that he received is just the way that our community is.
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And I know the blowback has been severe.
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We should expect some blowback.
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The blowback will be profound.
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In any case, one should not expect too much blowback from Obama supporters.
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So I thought about the counter arguments and the blowback related to AI before I launched this competition.
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Basing war policy on the denial of facts is never smart, and the blowback can be severe.
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Synonyms
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A negative reaction from people to a plan or change
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An action or plan that produces an unwanted result often making things worse
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To have an unexpected negative result that hurts the person who did it
A strong negative public reaction that follows an action or policy
The continuing effects after a big event that often cause problems
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A gun system where the bolt is not fully locked and opens later after firing
- Specialized
A gun system where the bolt must overcome resistance before moving but is not fully locked
How Negative
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Surface Forms
Morphology
blowback = blow (semi-transparent) = back + blow
The term is a metaphorical extension of 'blow' + 'back' to mean a returned negative reaction; the parts suggest the idea but the idiomatic political/social sense is conventionalized. [Postprocessing: moved 'back' from base_words to prefix]
Etymology
The word blowback joins blow ('a hit or strong effect') and back ('returned'). A helpful way to remember it is to think of an action that 'blows' back on you — an unexpected negative reaction to something you did, so it means an unwanted public reaction or backlash.