reduplication

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We should decry our inability to avoid costly reduplication of services, build more extended-care facilities and low-cost hospitals for the chronically ill, and reduce unnecessary surgery.

From Time Magazine Archive

What, exactly, are the implications of unsouled reduplication?

From Time Magazine Archive

"Knowledge which is merely a reduplication in ideas of what exists already in the world may afford us the satisfaction of a photograph, but that is all."

From Time Magazine Archive

I never heard of such complete reduplication before—at least among animals.

From The Wonderful Visit by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Dicrotism, or reduplication of the pulse-beat, is not uncommon in typhus and typhoid fever.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various