Usually means: Focused on the past events.
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  1. backward-looking: Merriam-Webster
  2. backward-looking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backward-looking, backward-looking: Collins English Dictionary
  4. backward-looking: Wordnik
  5. backward-looking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. backward-looking: Wiktionary
  7. backward-looking: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. backward-looking: Merriam-Webster

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adjective:  Not progressive; concerned with the past rather than the present or future.

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