back-channel \ ˈbak-ˌcha-nᵊl \ adjective
Recent Examples on the Web
//Both Saudi Arabia and the neighboring United Arab Emirates are believed to be talking to Tehran through back channels to ease tensions.
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Nasser Karimi And Jon Gambrell, USA TODAY, "Iran announces more violations of nuclear deal 40 years after 1979 takeover of US Embassy, hostage crisis," 4 Nov. 2019
//The New York Times looks at how White House aides were concerned that Trump had yet another back channel to Ukraine: an aide named Kash Patel.
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NBC News, "Republicans are running out of ways to defend Trump," 24 Oct. 2019
//Anna Chennault, a conservative activist and Republican fundraiser, acted as Nixon’s secret back channel to the government of South Vietnam.
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Ken Hughes, The Conversation, "Trump’s bad Nixon imitation may cost him the presidency," 3 Oct. 2019
//Players usually can learn through back channels whom the manager will be, or at least the most likely candidates.
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Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, "Stephen Vogt eyes return to Giants but wants to know who will manage," 25 Sep. 2019
//Official negotiations ceased for 10 days, but informal talks continued through back channels.
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Mary Carole Mccauley, baltimoresun.com, "Baltimore Symphony Orchestra musicians reach tentative agreement with management, could perform Friday," 21 Sep. 2019
//This type of immediate agreement, preemptively negotiated through back channels, has become standard practice in recent years.
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Ben Golliver, The Denver Post, "NBA free agency rules could change," 10 July 2019
//But never mind all that given Washington Post reporter Greg Miller’s deft and sharp storytelling in fleshing out secret back channels, cyber-espionage, and corrupt officials on both sides—and that’s just in the opening pages.
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Rachel King, Fortune, "9 Nonfiction Page-Turners to Bring to the Beach This Summer," 22 June 2019
//No one predicted, when the dam was built in 1937, that the widening pool of water behind the dam would amplify wind speeds, creating waves that ate away sandy islands and erased wildlife-rich back channels.
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Tristan Baurick, nola.com, "Reshaping the Mississippi is unraveling wildlife habitat: The River’s Revenge," 15 June 2019
First Known Use of back channel
1975, in the meaning defined above
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