tautology
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On one level, this is a fairly ridiculous tautology.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2024
The problem with this narrative is that it’s just a pejorative tautology.
From Washington Post • May 12, 2022
Commenters like to describe this as a beautiful tautology.
From New York Times • Apr. 6, 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
Vocabulary lists containing tautology
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