repeat
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Everton then spent £97m before the 2025-26 campaign - a club record net outlay in a summer transfer window - to repeat the same finish having accrued one more point.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Salish doesn’t like to repeat outfits on videos, so she does need at least one new outfit a week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Vivas warned of a repeat of the crisis of May 2021, when more than 8,000 migrants reached Ceuta over a two-day period.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
“Kiki’s Delivery Service” has been telling us that since the very first time we saw it, and in new ways with each repeat viewing.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
She’d probably been at the same school the whole time and never had to repeat a grade even if she understood all the material.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
This week’s briefing document repeats such absurdities and manipulates the data to claim the drug doesn’t work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Garden eventually went on record to suggest that the lack of repeats was punishment for the trio's "disloyalty", saying in 2020: "It seems they've held that grudge ever since."
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Humans are raised to accept such things are part of a cycle that repeats no matter what we do, and regardless of whether whatever we’re doing impacts that cycle.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
The 2032 fix likely repeats this pattern in updated form.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
The amen choir repeats “What’d you say?” in a drawl sounds nothing like me.
From "Finding Langston" by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Outside court on the first day of the hearing Bush said he was sorry to a BBC reporter, an apology which was repeated by his defence in court.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
A theory’s credibility can increase simply because someone with greater institutional authority has repeated it.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
The post-financial-crisis era of easy money has led to repeated booms and busts in small, and sometimes not-so-small, parts of the market in the past 15 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
More than 450 samples were examined through repeated genomic testing.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
“Merriweather,” Phillip repeated, taking a few steps back, “I know that this creature is powerful, but are you able to...to fight it?”
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
Rather than relying only on patterns arranged across space, the photonic time crystal introduces a repeating pattern in time.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
It may be obvious, but is worth repeating: “hydrate,” say both Eisenman and Turner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
But, as he keeps repeating, the question is how long that will take, and whether it fits his timeline.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
More: The August stock-market slump is a myth — so why does Wall Street keep repeating it?
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
“No hopeless case is truly without hope,” she reminded herself, then soothed her nerves by repeating under her breath, “The capital of Russia is Saint Petersburg!” over and over again.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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Units 6–7
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