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reduplication

[ri-doo-pli-key-shuhn, -dyoo-] / rɪˌdu plɪˈkeɪ ʃən, -ˌdyu- /


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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."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

The distinguishing abstract term, the epithet of Scholar, is reserved for him who writes on the �olic reduplication, and is familiar with the Sylburgian method of arranging defectives in ω and μι.

From The Intellectual Life by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert




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