In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
BACKTRACKING
Verb
backtracking
present participle of backtrack
Noun
backtracking (countable and uncountable, plural backtrackings)
(countable, uncountable) The act of one who, or that which, backtracks; a retracing of one's steps.
(aviation) The usage of a runway as a taxiway, especially at private strips and smaller airports.
(computer science) The act of building all possible solutions to a problem incrementally, abandoning any candidate solution if it cannot lead to a valid solution.
Anagrams
• backing track
Source: Wiktionary
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