repetition
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Also, less spontaneous thinking is required to unlock a defence as solutions are set out by their manager and drilled through repetition over a season.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Happily, for 25 years there has been no repetition on American soil of the mass-casualty attack that so many feared would follow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
"She formulated a philosophy of art she dubbed 'self-obliteration' based on simple motifs of obsessive repetition and proliferation," according to her website.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
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
Needing a break from the repetition of singing in his head the first phrases of the fourth song, he asked, “Nali, what is an N’daa and what happens?”
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
"Sniffing a 90% dark chocolate odor added about 18 more repetitions to participants' leg extensions, while a 60% milk chocolate odor added about nine repetitions compared to the water control," said Nashrudin Naharudin.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
Mr. and Mrs. Chandler have done their own silent scrubbing of the texts and acknowledge “omitting unneeded repetitions and Soviet clichés.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 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
"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
The repetitions of Vandara’s accusations were recited, and the defender again and again reiterated the amendment that said exceptions could be made.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
Vocabulary lists containing repetition
Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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Poetry: Literary Devices
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