read back
Example Sentences
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The chatbots always read back orders to customers, whereas employees sometimes skipped the step.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
The equation changed Wednesday when jurors asked the judge to read back testimony from experts on Skaggs’ future earnings had he lived.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2025
And they should never, ever read back text-message codes to people who say they are bank representatives or anyone else.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 17, 2025
At the same time, these new ideas about political authority were read back into biblical texts.
From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2025
At least at the level of language, then, we need to recover the eighteenth-century context of things and not read back into those years the hallowed meanings they would acquire over the next century.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
