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tautology

[taw-tol-uh-jee] / tɔˈtɒl ə dʒi /












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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

The anthropic principle is a tautology masquerading as a truth, but it has proved remarkably resilient.

From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2021

To describe as doomed a love that begins in 1938 between two European women is to risk tautology.

From New York Times • May 19, 2020

“A tautology is a repetition of the same sense in different words,” he said.

From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie