repetition
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The ability to hold another person’s reality alongside one’s own, without reducing it or rewriting it, requires training, repetition and exposure.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
My mother, an excellent cook, understood repetition better.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
Before raw quality or star names are considered, Tuchel had in mind the type of team he wanted to see, leaning on specific tactics and the aforementioned "repetition of patterns".
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
Settings like this are a good place to start, since they’re controlled environments that involve plenty of repetition, rather than unpredictable elements.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
The dullness of military life, the endless repetition of duties, the standing in line to eat, to use the bathroom, to shave, served as no distraction at all.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
The countless repetitions give you the most beautiful art form where swans glide, fairies dance and every year a giant nutcracker appears.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
As it’s around 300 pages long, including innumerable repetitions, you may ask if the length and density is a bug or a feature.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
Andy Akiho’s clever music mechanically parrots the repetitions in the text and grows increasingly frantic as the students’ frustration and discomfort escalate—they hate her and they want her to notice them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
She said instructions to carry out exercises like push-ups "might start at a thousand repetitions".
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2025
The other kids started doing the moves, and by now, after all those repetitions, I could do them too.
From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee
Vocabulary lists containing repetition
Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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Poetry: Literary Devices
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