pleonasm

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Technically speaking, that expression is a pleonasm—a redundant description—since all facts are, by definition, true.

From The New Yorker

It’s a pleonasm to say that these performances, which took place in public, were never intended for domestic listening; they have the sort of intensity that’s incongruous with the quiet enjoyment of home.

From The New Yorker

To call it 'the will to live' is therefore a pleonasm.

From Project Gutenberg

Our attention is called to its "unique transcendence"—which is a penny-a-lining pleonasm.

From Project Gutenberg

At risk of being a tad picky, I should point out that Richard's letter about pedantry offered that gift to pedants of including a pleonasm, when he states that he would, 'lose in heroic failure'.

From The Guardian