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

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 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

But such a complete reduplication, and so avian, too!

From The Wonderful Visit by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)