Synonyms for backgroundsback·grounds

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1. List of paraphrases for "backgrounds":

   origins, horizons, background, environments, contexts, origin, antecedents, origines, settings, circles, sources, history, funds, histories

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1. Lauren Stover:

   You can vet employees for basic information on their backgrounds, but it's not going to prevent them from carrying out some kind of malicious activity against an airport. And airports need to know their threats. For us, we have threats from criminal activity to being targets of a terrorism attack.

2. Harry Shearer:

   I think there's a conflation between representation, which is important -- people from all backgrounds should be represented in the writing and producing ends of the business so they help decide what stories to tell and with what knowledge -- and performance, the job is playing someone I'm not.

3. Hazel Blears:

   If all intelligence professionals are cut from the same cloth, sharing similar backgrounds and similar characteristics, then they are likely to share 'unacknowledged biases' which will circumscribe both the definition of problems and the search for solutions.

4. Gregory Pratt:

   There are real diversity issues in media, it's important newspaper bosses acknowledge and work on it. At the same time, it's important for government officials to be accessible and answer tough questions from journalists of all backgrounds.

5. John Boehner:

   In a time of global upheaval, the Holy Father's message of compassion and human dignity has moved people of all faiths and backgrounds, his teachings, prayers, and very example bring us back to the blessings of simple things and our obligations to one another.