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backtrack

 verb
     
back‧track [intransitive]
1 to change an opinion or promise that you gave so that it is not as strong as it was earlier [↪ backpedal]
backtrack on
The President is backtracking on his promise to increase healthcare spending.
2 to return by the same way that you came:
We had to backtrack about a mile.
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