Usually means: Reversed course or changed opinion.
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  1. backtracked: Merriam-Webster
  2. backtracked: Collins English Dictionary
  3. backtracked: Vocabulary.com
  4. backtracked: Wordnik
  5. backtracked: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. backtracked: Wiktionary
  7. backtracked: Dictionary.com
  8. backtracked: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. backtracked: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (backtrack)

noun:  the act of backtracking
verb:  To retrace one's steps.
verb:  To repeat or review work already done.
verb:  (aviation) To taxi down an active runway in the opposite direction to that being used for takeoff.
verb:  To exercise a racehorse around the racetrack in the opposite direction to that in which races are run.
verb:  To go back on or withdraw a statement.
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