talk back
Example Sentences
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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
My father, who had dared to talk back to the Taliban, was learning that sometimes saying nothing speaks just as loudly.
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
