ditto
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Yet $18.8 billion from even 10% participation would be serious scholarship money, and ditto if a 5% rate produces $9.4 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Insurance companies will ask about family history, including whether relatives have suffered from dementia, and at what age; ditto for heart disease, among other age-related diseases.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
That Ellie is relentless has been made abundantly clear; ditto the fact that she is confused about her purpose in life.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 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
Lee Rostrum smoothed his ditto out on the desk.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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And Matilda had come out in the home dress she had worn while she and Maria had been washing up the dinner dittoes.
From What She Could by Susan Warner
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 Archibald Forbes
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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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 Sir Max Pemberton
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
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Mrs. Baker came back into the room with a pile of blue dittos.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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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
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The thyroid and the adrenals are mutually stimulating—when the thyroid oversecretes, the adrenal dittos, and vice versa.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman 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
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