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reduplicate

[ri-doo-pli-keyt, -dyoo-, ri-doo-pli-kit, -keyt, -dyoo-] / rɪˈdu plɪˌkeɪt, -ˈdju-, rɪˈdu plɪ kɪt, -ˌkeɪt, -ˈdju- /






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Sir Hubert Wilkins, bearded Arctic explorer, offered to reduplicate a stunt he described to an Idaho Falls lecture audience.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lefty gave us his magnificently written poem which he could never reduplicate because he had lost his hand.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

In the Mœso-Gothic, however, there was a true reduplicate form; in other words, a perfect tense as well as an aorist.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

Art gives intelligible ideas of the forms of nature, mechanism attempts to reduplicate their aspects.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various

The same reasons, moreover, which induced the Master to reduplicate his lesson demands that we should also reduplicate ours: it is our part both in matter and in method to follow his steps.

From The Parables of Our Lord by Arnot, William

He retained them in the multipanel murals, which were composed of three to five individual prints, with figures at the margins sliced and reduplicated where the prints overlapped.

From New York Times Feb. 2, 2023

In this show’s 1912 collage of a face by Picasso, a reduplicated nose and ear seem to cast doubt on the entire project of orderly representation.

From New York Times Aug. 11, 2022

However, the singing by Ronnie McDowell is gilt-edge counterfeit, Elvis' sound carefully shaped and reduplicated by Felton Jarvis, Presley's own producer at RCA.

From Time Magazine Archive

They may be the images of a string of lights at a distance, or they may be reduplicated images of a single very bright light.

From Time Magazine Archive

As in I E a few Dak roots either single or reduplicated form nomen actionis, etc.

From The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages by Williamson, A. W. (Andrew Woods)

Ah! if science had only the means of conducting and reduplicating sounds, as it does the rays of light, what carols of happiness would then have entranced my ears!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 by Various

Intelligence, he thought, is no miraculous, idle faculty, by which we mirror passively any or everything that happens to be true, reduplicating the real world to no purpose.

From Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion by Santayana, George

Another was for the making of jig-saw puzzles, a third for their elucidation, a fourth was for typewriting; and there was a reduplicating apparatus, and another table with materials for illuminating.

From The Eldest Son by Marshall, Archibald

I sometimes wonder whether those who are forgiven, yet have left evil behind them on earth, are purified by being shown their own errors reduplicating with time and numbers.’

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

So with reduplicating speech she conveyed intelligence to his mind.

From King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties by Housman, Laurence




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