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

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

A senior DUP source said if you read Sir Jeffrey's speech in tandem with that of his very much ditto deputy Gavin Robinson they "neither spoke of a done deal nor scoffed at the potential".

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2023

Lee Rostrum smoothed his ditto out on the desk.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

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

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

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

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

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

In music we already possess far too many "dittos," ditto programmes, ditto compositions, ditto renderings, and ditto ideals.

From Spirit and Music by H. Ernest Hunt

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