Back
This time
Back and this time are semantically related in in the past topic. Sometimes you can use "Back" instead an adverb phrase "This time".
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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As Sam demonstrates, they do, but to be fair it wasn't God who brought him back and this time he Came Back Wrong and had to earn a proper resurrection afterwards over the course of several episodes.
Source: First Law of Resurrection -
The Avengers (2012): Loki's back and this time he wants to take over the Earth with help from the Chitauri.
Source: Evil Plan - In Season 4 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Spike is watching Buffy from a balcony, giving a speech about how he's back and this time he's going to kill the slayer, but is interrupted by being tazered and surrounded by the season's real villains, The Initiative.
Source: Bait-and-Switch Boss
Cite this Source
This time and Back. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/back/this_time
Back & This time. N.p., 2016. Web. 28 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/back/this_time>.
This time or Back. 2016. Accessed July 28, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/back/this_time.
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