repetitions
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He memorized symbols and repetitions when texting girlfriends, a trick he compares to a person who can’t speak Spanish singing along to “La Bamba.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026
"Keely can be doing certain repetitions, and she's being physically sick from the lactic acid. It's a little bit inhumane at times."
From BBC • Feb. 20, 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
This repetition produces what psychologists call the illusory truth effect, where as few as three repetitions convince the human mind something is true.
From Salon • Jun. 17, 2025
One hundred repetitions three nights a week for four years, thought Bernard Marx, who was a specialist on hypnopsedia.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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