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.

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What, exactly, are the implications of unsouled reduplication?

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"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."

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CROCODILE, a name for certain reptiles, taken from ancient Gr. κορδύλος, signifying lizard and newt; with reduplication κορκορδύλος, and by metathesis ultimately κροκόδειλος.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various

A characteristic feature of this language is described in explaining syllabic reduplication, which performs iterative and distributive functions.

From First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-1880, Government Printing Office 1881 by Various