reduplication
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"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."
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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
What, exactly, are the implications of unsouled reduplication?
From Time Magazine Archive
Simple reduplication is mostly confined to family appellations and such adverbial phrases as man-man, “slowly.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
What the four-post bedstead but a reduplication of the original type, a table placed on a table, the upper one being laid open?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
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