* Imitate: repeat back the sounds, words and sentences very young children make.
Yes, I loved the emotional security of knowing that if I said, "I'm upset," Dan would repeat back, "You're upset".
You listen to an expert explain a subject to you, and then you repeat back what you heard to show that you learned it.
The sound engineer gathered his courage, and, like a hostage trying to appease a crazy person with a knife, began to repeat back Cameron's words slowly.
Intermittently, they would hear a prompt to "recall," at which point, they'd have to repeat back all the words they'd heard since the last prompt.
The Ghost in particular reminded me of someone, with his kindness and spookiness, the way he said almost nothing, except to repeat back to Scrooge his own remarks.
"Basically, repeat back the phrase, 'I would like to go to Times Square, please.'" Cabbies are expected to know the streets, to some degree, and keep an atlas handy for when they don't.
Kaufman said, "I think about the person in the room-service thing — who may have somebody looking over their shoulder — whose job it is to repeat back the whole description of the food item that you've purchased.
I once attended a counselling course at which, as an exercise in conflict resolution, you had, in your own words, to repeat back to someone what they had just said, until they agreed that you'd understood them correctly.
As Twitter users quickly came to understand, Tay would often repeat back racist tweets with her own commentary.
Like even you say, so you're saying, and then you go into a repeat back of what they're saying to clarify.
