repetition
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With a beveled chord progression and a haunting repetition of the name, it became perhaps her most requested song, and was covered by many, including the White Stripes, Candi Staton, Reba McEntire and Olivia Newton-John.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
"The surprising thing was how strongly repetition alone can change preferences," explains Wagner.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
My mother, an excellent cook, understood repetition better.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
Yet these settings solve the hardest problem in friendship formation: proximity multiplied by repetition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
I had missed the morning Bulletin on my set at home, and half-listened now, my mind elsewhere, until the repetition of the name several times caught my ear at last and stopped my pacing.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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"We are talking about people who did not simply draw lines, but organized them according to recurring principles -- parallelisms, grids, rotations and systematic repetitions: a visual grammar in embryo."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
As it’s around 300 pages long, including innumerable repetitions, you may ask if the length and density is a bug or a feature.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
Andy Akiho’s clever music mechanically parrots the repetitions in the text and grows increasingly frantic as the students’ frustration and discomfort escalate—they hate her and they want her to notice them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
"At some point it goes on the wrist. Way more players have problems with the wrist. I think the problem is the many, many repetitions."
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026
Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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