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reduplication

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


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What, exactly, are the implications of unsouled reduplication?

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

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

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

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John

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