reduplication
Example Sentences
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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
"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
What, exactly, are the implications of unsouled reduplication?
From Time Magazine Archive
It is in the beginning firm and full, but after the first week becomes small and compressible, and acquires the peculiarity known as reduplication.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Double consonants rare.—It cannot be too clearly understood that in words like pitted, stabbing, massy, &c., there is no real reduplication of the sounds of t, b, and s, respectively.
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
