talk back
Example Sentences
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“Someone is talking to you, but you can’t talk back to them,” Moss said, before cracking a smile.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2024
“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
Way we’re raised around here, children don’t talk back to grown folks.
From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
