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2014 October 9, Marina Carver, “Study finds Boston police target African-Americans disproportionately”, in CNN:
“Over the past month, the Department has held three separate meetings with the ACLU to receive feedback and engage the organization in the solutions,” the department said in a statement. “As a result of the meetings, the Department agrees that publishing FIO statistics going forward is necessary, and the Department is working toward personalizing interactions between officers and citizens.”
2007, Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain:
The fact that similar cortical abnormalities can be experimentally induced in monkeys has allowed Michael Merzenich and his colleagues in San Francisco to explore an animal model of focal dystonia, and to demonstrate the abnormal feedback in the sensory loop and the motor misfirings that, once started, grow relentlessly worse.
feedback (third-person singular simple presentfeedbacks, present participlefeedbacking, simple past and past participlefeedbacked)
(music) To generate the high-frequency sound by allowing a speaker to cause vibration of the sound generator of a musical instrument connected by an amplifier to the speaker.
The show ended with a riot of feedbacking guitars.
(transitive) To provide informational feedback to.
His employees feedbacked him a lot more than he wanted.
(transitive) To convey by means of specialized communications channel.
Customers feedbacked their complaints and some praise.
Usage notes
Some are likely to prefer feed back and its inflected forms feeds back, feeding back, or fed back.
“feedback”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023) “feedback”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA