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  • noun Plural form of callback.

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Examples

  • The provision is known as callbacks and it allows the government to get back or call back your money, but callbacks are not in the legislation.

    CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2009 2009

  • Sesame Street cast an in-house puppeteer without going to callbacks, which is pretty much what I expected to happen.

    Sesame Street Update maryrobinette 2005

  • I generally tend to find callbacks confusing when called callbacks in an Object Oriented context because they drop the level of abstraction too low.

    PlanetJava 2010

  • I generally tend to find callbacks confusing when called callbacks in an Object Oriented context because they drop the level of abstraction too low.

    Planet Eclipse Annas "Andy" Maleh 2010

  • Users can also utilize collision shapes that can call callbacks without generating collisions.

    MacNN | The Macintosh News Network 2010

  • More of those concise lambda expression callbacks! user1Invitation.

    DotNetSlackers Latest ASP.NET News 2010

  • Essentially all the callbacks are the same with only two differences: the callback name itself and a label within it.

    AutoHotkey Community 2008

  • Because of this, the protocol used to request "callbacks" for callback rules is generalised; in every CARBON request it's possible to list the partial rules you're trying to resolve, in which case the entity just responds with what seems pertinent which may be more than what you ask for.

    Snell-Pym » Designing a global knowledge base 2009

  • In fact, 70% to 80% of all positive mammograms do not, on biopsy, show any presence of cancer. 71 According to some estimates, 90% of these "callbacks" result from unclear readings due to dense overlying breast tissue. 72

    Information Liberation 2009

  • In particular, Ore noted that most of the increase in employment was due to the hiring of temps and "callbacks," or bringing back laid-off workers.

    Logistics Management Logistics - Best Practices News 2009

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