ditto
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For the first half of the 20th century, this need was addressed—sort of—via mimeographs and ditto machines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025
“Mum didn’t teach them because she was out at work and Dad ditto, if he ever could cook!”
From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2024
England's 2005 Ashes winners didn't always get on, ditto the great Australian teams led by Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2023
Coming soon: sandwiches on housemade bread, hopefully ditto.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2022
“I’ll be in the ditto room,” said Mrs. Baker.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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A dot-and-go-one suit of dittoes went for best, so to speak, with his curly red hair, and got the better of it by a long way.
From The Man Who Drove the Car by Sir Max Pemberton
But what the mischief do you mean—you, with your pretence to culture—by hanging your dwelling with all those framed and glazed photograph and autograph dittoes?
From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
It was a dingy apartment, with a single large horse-hair chair and half a dozen small wooden dittoes, placed with mathematical precision along the walls.
From The Firm of Girdlestone by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Enter MARIA, disguised in a brown bowler hat and a very tight suit of tweed "dittoes," in which she looks very like the "Male Impersonator" at a Music-hall.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892 by Various
Secretaries, servants, wood, charities, which are demanded as rights, and the million dittoes, present such a prospect as is enough to disgust anyone.
From Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States by William Henry Seward
She had such a clear vision, he said: That the movie should center on a mall, that there should be surreal shots, like the kids smelling their dittos.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2018
Mrs. Baker came back into the room with a pile of blue dittos.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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His hands were always blue from the ink, mostly because he hauled the dittos out from the machine while they were still wet from the alcohol—the smell of which gave the room a tang.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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Catch the Spirit!—and they handed out a stack of dittos, and for the next thirty minutes, Principal Peattie stood on the stage and read them to us.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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Eventually, however, we were rigged up at a well-stocked clothing establishment in suits of dittos which would hardly have passed muster in Bond Street, but which did very well for our purpose.
From From Paris to New York by Land by Harry De Windt
This understanding is dittoed for the batter who’s on a hitting streak, the poker player who’s drawing strong hands and the stock picker who has a run of soaring successes.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 27, 2023
This sentiment was dittoed in a post from somebody named Louise.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2010
He dittoed these off like a major publisher.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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