ditto

For the first half of the 20th century, this need was addressed—sort of—via mimeographs and ditto machines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025

“Mum didn’t teach them because she was out at work and Dad ditto, if he ever could cook!”

From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2024

Ditto the summer, ditto the autumn, and yes, ditto the winter.

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2023

Always in the background was his sense that Ukrainian food — ditto the country’s culture writ large — wasn’t being true to itself.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2023

Principal Peattie set his ditto down on the desk in front of him.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

It was a dingy apartment, with a single large horse-hair chair and half a dozen small wooden dittoes, placed with mathematical precision along the walls.

From The Firm of Girdlestone by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Jaunty men in loud suits of dittoes have come into the north country, and display fly-books that vie in the variegated brilliancy of their contents with a Dutch tulip bed.

From Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places by Forbes, Archibald

But what the mischief do you mean—you, with your pretence to culture—by hanging your dwelling with all those framed and glazed photograph and autograph dittoes?

From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

A dot-and-go-one suit of dittoes went for best, so to speak, with his curly red hair, and got the better of it by a long way.

From The Man Who Drove the Car by Pemberton, Max, Sir

Enter MARIA, disguised in a brown bowler hat and a very tight suit of tweed "dittoes," in which she looks very like the "Male Impersonator" at a Music-hall.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892 by Various

She had such a clear vision, he said: That the movie should center on a mall, that there should be surreal shots, like the kids smelling their dittos.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2018

His hands were always blue from the ink, mostly because he hauled the dittos out from the machine while they were still wet from the alcohol—the smell of which gave the room a tang.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

Catch the Spirit!—and they handed out a stack of dittos, and for the next thirty minutes, Principal Peattie stood on the stage and read them to us.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

Mrs. Baker came back into the room with a pile of blue dittos.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

The thyroid and the adrenals are mutually stimulating—when the thyroid oversecretes, the adrenal dittos, and vice versa.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.

This understanding is dittoed for the batter who’s on a hitting streak, the poker player who’s drawing strong hands and the stock picker who has a run of soaring successes.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 27, 2023

This sentiment was dittoed in a post from somebody named Louise.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2010

He dittoed these off like a major publisher.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt