Back and Trailing

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Back adjective - Being at or in the part of something opposite the front part.

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Trailing and back are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Trailing" instead an adjective "Back".

Nearby Words: backward, backing, backed, backside, backwards

Trailing noun - The act of going after or in the tracks of another.

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Back and trailing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Back" instead an adjective "Trailing".

Nearby Words: trail, trailed

At its height, the Global Guardians PBEM Universe had literally megabytes of back story on its website, in a history involving thousands of characters and trailing all the way back to the Big Bang.

Source: Backstory
And Aang goes back to his friends after hearing that Zuko is trailing them with a bounty hunter.

Source: Achilles in His Tent
The purrgil are actually a bit of both with tentacles trailing out the back but a face akin to a sperm whale.

Source: Western Animation / Star Wars Rebels

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