tautology
Example Sentences
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On one level, this is a fairly ridiculous tautology.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2024
It’s such a distortion I don’t think you could even call it a tautology.
From Slate • Mar. 3, 2023
I just say “the novel”; which isn’t an answer, it’s a tautology — but a necessary one maybe.
From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2022
The anthropic principle is a tautology masquerading as a truth, but it has proved remarkably resilient.
From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2021
That was a point; could not tautology exaggerate it?
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
