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View synonyms for play back

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Idioms and Phrases

Replay, especially a recorded performance; also, repeat. For example, When we played back the tape of the concert we noticed a lot of missed notes , or He uses the same material again and again, playing back his old speech . [Early 1900s]
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Example Sentences

A director like Wilson, willing to nurture a play back to life, is just what the later Tennessee needed then and is getting now.

He really thinks that under certain conditions he can play back to that eighty-two.

By the time that he had got his play back from the last manager he would have his novel ready for the first publisher.

But a play-back recorder named Al, and a picture-unscrambler named Gus were in closed-circuit relationship with Betsy.

Cardon put the disk in his pocket recorder and set it for play-back, putting the plug in his ear.

If he does not play back his chance of victory may disappear entirely at this bunker.

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