Back
Both words in one sentence
- Instead of killing and mounting a unique species, their goal is to bring back one or more of them alive for display (or black market sales) in the first case, or for scientific study in the latter.
Source: Bring It Back Alive -
If you're defending or have beaten off an invading AI opponent they will hang back and let mounting debt and attrition, the first of which they don't suffer from, weaken the player instead.
Source: Video Game / Crusader Kings - The end result of these mounting miseries is that the Doctor temporarily turns into a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds and almost destroys the universe before being brought back to his best self.
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Mounting and Back. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/back/mounting
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Mounting or Back. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/back/mounting.
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