Useful for wrapper APIs or communicating with external interfaces:

function callFunction(fn) {
  this[fn].apply(this, Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 1));
}
callFunction("alert", "It works");
callFunction("setTimeout", function() {
  alert("Timeout after 5s");
}, 5000);

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