positive feedback

noun

: feedback that tends to magnify a process or increase its output

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According to a Sharks’ spokesperson, the organization’s sales team received positive feedback from season ticket holders regarding the tournament. Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2025 The system has been refined since its earliest inception in 2019 in the independent Atlantic League and could be introduced to the majors as soon as 2026 if baseball’s executives receive positive feedback. Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2025 Clinical Trial Media itself has seen positive feedback at trial sites that provide puzzles and toys so that children can accompany their mothers or other female guardians to the trial site and have a space of their own there. Eva Epker, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025 By 2010, having gotten positive feedback from family and friends, Castle started expanding her reach. Gili Malinsky,raffi Paul, CNBC, 13 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for positive feedback

Word History

First Known Use

1934, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of positive feedback was in 1934

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“Positive feedback.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/positive%20feedback. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.

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