"row back" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2013 January 19, Paul Harris, “Lance Armstrong faces multi-million dollar legal challenges after confession”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Indeed, part of the problem was that Armstrong was rowing back on so much previous behaviour and years of aggressive lambasting of reporters, officials and team-mates who had claimed he was doping. \"I don't forgive Lance Armstrong, who lied to me in two interviews. And I suspect most of America won't, either,\" Kurtz wrote.",
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          "ref": "2022 October 5, “Network News: Private sector's role in a publicly-owned railway”, in RAIL, number 967, page 16:",
          "text": "Labour has rowed back from a plan for new rolling stock to be procured and owned in the public sector - with the party's rail spokesman saying it is not a priority.",
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          "ref": "2023 October 10, Senay Boztas, “Frans Timmermans urges European left to unite against right’s climate backlash”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Speaking to the Guardian in one of his first campaign interviews, Timmermans said the UK government was one of the countries rowing back on green pledges.",
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        "To change or revise a previous opinion or decision."
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        "(UK, idiomatic) To change or revise a previous opinion or decision."
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          "type": "quote"
        },
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        "To change or revise a previous opinion or decision."
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