repetitions
Example Sentences
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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
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
Duncan took first- and second-team repetitions Saturday as part of a surreal scene in which fellow quarterback Nick Billoups also participated despite being in the transfer portal.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2025
Back outside the mosque in Cairo, worshippers quietly point out how their country must try to avoid troubling repetitions of history.
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2025
She was weary of repetitions, weary of circumlocutions, weary of everything.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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