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
And never read back text-message codes; your bank will never ask you to do that.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 31, 2025
“It was painful to read back at times, but there’s so much hope,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2024
Justice Merchan asks the jurors whether they want his instructions read back first, or the testimony they had requested to hear again.
From BBC • May 30, 2024
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
