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talk back

[tawk-bak] / ˈtɔkˌbæk /


VERB
back talk
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“The robot is convenient, it doesn’t talk back or anything.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2025

“My experience, after 54 years of doing this stuff, is that the cops don’t like when you talk back that way,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2024

But until the arrival of the AI chatbot ChatGPT, most people had never actually spoken to it before - or had it talk back.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2023

The elephants were also quicker to talk back when the recordings were of others calling their names, as opposed to when researchers played recordings of non-name elephant chatter.

From Salon • Nov. 17, 2023

"All we have to work with is the camera. He can write notes and hold them up. But how we talk back is trickier."

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir




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