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Recent Examples of callback
The drink is doubtlessly a callback to a song of the same title Swift is thought to have penned about Kelce.
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Kansas City Star, 29 Aug. 2025
What does that callback bring to this moment?
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2025
New romantic alignments and realignments are introduced, exhaustingly, by the minute; every action spurs a symmetrical reaction, and every gag in the first half finds an inevitable callback in the second.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
That left Lakay closed through the weekend until Monday’s second callback inspection.
—David J. Neal
updated August 22, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
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Kansas City Star, 29 Aug. 2025
What does that callback bring to this moment?
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2025
New romantic alignments and realignments are introduced, exhaustingly, by the minute; every action spurs a symmetrical reaction, and every gag in the first half finds an inevitable callback in the second.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
That left Lakay closed through the weekend until Monday’s second callback inspection.
—David J. Neal
updated August 22, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for callback
Noun
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In order to embolden and support his organization, bin Laden often videotaped himself with messages aimed at his target audience, established training centers in Afghanistan, had an expansive funding network that included wealthy individuals, couriers, mosques and other complex ways to raise funds.—
Richard Frankel,
ABC News,
11 Sep. 2025
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Inside the West Wing, staff sat in shocked silence, scrolling to see the latest updates of news on their phones and messages on their computer screens.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Leave us a voicemail at 202-216-9823, or email us at LifeKit@npr.org.—
Beck Harlan,
NPR,
30 Aug. 2025
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Newsweek reached out to the company via phone call on Friday and left a voicemail.—
Anna Commander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
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During a July conference call with Wall Street analysts to discuss financial results, BrightSpire discussed its plans for the hotel in the wake of the foreclosure.—
George Avalos,
Mercury News,
10 Sep. 2025
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During a conference call with reporters earlier this week, NFL EVP of media distribution Hans Schroeder confirmed that the calendar loophole in the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 that allowed for two years of late-summer Friday dates will temporarily close in 2026.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Callback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/callback. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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