reduplication
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We should decry our inability to avoid costly reduplication of services, build more extended-care facilities and low-cost hospitals for the chronically ill, and reduce unnecessary surgery.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Knowledge which is merely a reduplication in ideas of what exists already in the world may afford us the satisfaction of a photograph, but that is all."
From Time Magazine Archive
What, exactly, are the implications of unsouled reduplication?
From Time Magazine Archive
The latter part of the word seems to be allied with smuggle, and the former part to be the reduplication.
From Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George
I never heard of such complete reduplication before—at least among animals.
From The Wonderful Visit by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
