Crossword-Solution: BACKGROUND
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Background | n. | Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front. |
| Background | n. | The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures. |
| Background | n. | Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had a background of red hangings. |
| Background | n. | A place in obscurity or retirement, or out of sight. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BACKGROUND (5)
The economy has presented a picture of moderate but slowing growth against a background of underlying weaknesses in technology and worker motivation.
His reason and his propensities had seldom any reciprocating influence, having separated by mutual consent long ago: thence it sometimes happened that, while his intentions were as honourable as could be wished, any particular deed formed a dark background which threw them into fine relief.
Without any effort of his will, or power to restrain himself, he shrieked aloud: an outcry that went pealing through the night, and was beaten back from one house to another, and reverberated from the hills in the background; as if a company of devils, detecting so much misery and terror in it, had made a plaything of the sound, and were bandying it to and fro.
All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives—all that was over.
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Quotes with BACKGROUND (3)
Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.
No, this, she felt, was real life and if she wasn’t as curious or passionate as she had once been, that was only to be expected. It would be inappropriate, undignified, at thirty-eight, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour and intensity of a twenty-two-year-old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry, crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photo-booths, taking a whole day to make a compilation tape, asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just …
I love when my mind focuses on how wonderful I am and lets all the other (less generous) thoughts recede into the background. You're wonderful too, by the way. Way wonderful.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, WSJ.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1959–2020).