reduplication
Example Sentences
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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
What, exactly, are the implications of unsouled reduplication?
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
The reduplication of the consonant after a vowel, as in spotted, torrent, is in most cases but an orthographical expedient.
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
What the four-post bedstead but a reduplication of the original type, a table placed on a table, the upper one being laid open?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
