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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

Test series against New Zealand and Pakistan this summer are winnable, ditto for a winter in South Africa and Bangladesh, before the 150th anniversary Test against Australia in Melbourne.

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026

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

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 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Secretaries, servants, wood, charities, which are demanded as rights, and the million dittoes, present such a prospect as is enough to disgust anyone.

From Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States by William Henry Seward

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

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

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

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

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

It must be our honest worth, our sterling merit, that attracts them—certainly not our appearance, in a pair of tweed "dittos," black angora coat and vest, stand-up collar, and chimney-pot hat!

From Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

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