Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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phrase
A stock science-fiction phrase, typically used as a code or shibboleth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still, in which an alien named Klaatu tells an Earthwoman a code phrase for his robot Gort. See first citation.
