reduplicate
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Sir Hubert Wilkins, bearded Arctic explorer, offered to reduplicate a stunt he described to an Idaho Falls lecture audience.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lefty gave us his magnificently written poem which he could never reduplicate because he had lost his hand.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
His self-esteem is to his capacity in the reduplicate ratio of the inverse proportion of his ability, and he will be always a fool.'
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Charles James Lever
In the Mœso-Gothic, however, there was a true reduplicate form; in other words, a perfect tense as well as an aorist.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
Did from do is also considered to be a reduplicate form.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
He retained them in the multipanel murals, which were composed of three to five individual prints, with figures at the margins sliced and reduplicated where the prints overlapped.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
In this show’s 1912 collage of a face by Picasso, a reduplicated nose and ear seem to cast doubt on the entire project of orderly representation.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2022
However, the singing by Ronnie McDowell is gilt-edge counterfeit, Elvis' sound carefully shaped and reduplicated by Felton Jarvis, Presley's own producer at RCA.
From Time Magazine Archive
They may be the images of a string of lights at a distance, or they may be reduplicated images of a single very bright light.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Babe" is probably a form of the earlier baban, a reduplicated form of the infant sound ba.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
Twenty yards of the rope already in hand was set against stones—whose weight they had already determined by reduplicating a number of bullets—and its quantity ascertained in pounds and ounces.
From The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" by Mayne Reid
Another was for the making of jig-saw puzzles, a third for their elucidation, a fourth was for typewriting; and there was a reduplicating apparatus, and another table with materials for illuminating.
From The Eldest Son by Archibald Marshall
Intelligence, he thought, is no miraculous, idle faculty, by which we mirror passively any or everything that happens to be true, reduplicating the real world to no purpose.
From Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion by George Santayana
Far and wide the thundering shout, Rolling among reduplicating rocks, Pealed o'er the hills, and up the mountain vales.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
So with reduplicating speech she conveyed intelligence to his mind.
From King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties by Laurence Housman
