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ditto

[dit-oh] / ˈdɪt oʊ /
NOUN
copy, reproduction
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STRONG


NOUN
(said to express agreement with what was just said)
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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

And they will continue to behave as such until it physically can't be in the spring, but in the summer… and ditto the autumn, and, yes, the winter.

From BBC Nov. 23, 2023

“Ditto, ditto, Mr. Brooke,” laughed Meg, looking young and pretty again, as she nodded to him over the teapot.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

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 Warner, Susan

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

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

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

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 Seward, William Henry

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

I ordered a new suit of dittos for the garden at Edwards’, and chose the pattern by gaslight, and they seemed to be a quiet pepper-and-salt mixture with white stripes down. 

From Diary of a Nobody by Grossmith, George

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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