backfire in the PONS Dictionary

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The spell backfired horribly, and instead brought people from other worlds.
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One of them dastardly science folk will protect the monsters in order to study them, which will also inevitably backfire.
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Prolonged operation at rich mixtures can cause catastrophic failure of the catalytic converter (see backfire).
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But that voracity can backfire.
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It backfires, however, and she drinks both halves, meaning she falls passionately in love with herself.
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The radical changes it forces on a targeted population can backfire, including the counterproductive result of freeing inessential labourers to fill worker shortages in war industries.
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The downsizing did, however, backfire in some cases.
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However, in the faltering economy of that period into the early 1980s, this would backfire, and the chain's image with consumers soured.
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The story proper begins when a lab experiment involving bacteriophages backfires spectacularly.
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And that all of that was in my eyes all the time, backfiring all these years...
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