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reduplicate

[ri-doo-pli-kayt, -dyoo-, ri-doo-pli-kit, -kayt, -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

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

Over he goes—and as it happens—as it happens—he has reduplicate fore-limbs, one pair being not unlike wings.

From The Wonderful Visit by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Did from do is also considered to be a reduplicate form.

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

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

In a reduplicated form only one half as a rule needs to be explained.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley

No amount of after manipulation could condone so vicious a slaughter of space and line opportunities which the background, with its reduplicating edge, accomplishes.

From Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures by Henry Rankin Poore

Far and wide the thundering shout, Rolling among reduplicating rocks, Pealed o'er the hills, and up the mountain vales.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge

Twenty yards of the rope already in hand was set against stones—whose weight they had already determined by reduplicating a number of bullets—and its quantity ascertained in pounds and ounces.

From The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" by Mayne Reid

It was an awesome picture, that ravenous and reduplicating mouth!

From Essays in Rebellion by Henry W. Nevinson

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 Charlotte Mary Yonge


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