reduplication

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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

In compound and derived words, where the original root ends, and the superadded affix begins, with the same letter, there is a reduplication of the sound and not otherwise.

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

In the composition I have chosen for our illustration, this reduplication 139 is employed to a singular extent.

From The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners by Ruskin, John