drawing back
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drawing back
[′drȯ·iŋ ′bak] (metallurgy)
Reheating hardened steel to a temperature below the critical temperature in order to change its hardness.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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He further described their announcement as
drawing back from elections, adding that "there are several ways to draw back from running to elections, and this is one of them".
"It was the luminosity of the iPhone's screen that connected me to it." Long an advocate of drawing as a way of teaching how to look at the world, Hockney jokes, "Who would have thought the telephone could bring
drawing back?"
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