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How to pronounce backwardness
“backwardness” pronunciation in American English
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“backwardness” in real sentences
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that their problem was backwardness.
Oxford Union
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Remember, Renan and so forth, backwardness, the oriental mind, the Semitic mind.
The Royal Institution
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condition now due to people disorganization and economic backwardness they failed to assert themselves within the
Melbourne Asia Review Asia Institute
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helped undermine traditional authorities the way in which they helped overcome backwardness and uh there is
British Library
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