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When a mobile phone call drops out, the ensuing attempts to call each other back on both sides results in endless straight-to-voicemail calls, engaged signals, more dropouts... it's just useless. Adapted from the term "war of attrition", in which both forces wear each other down over a long period of time, resulting in little success for either.
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