reduplication
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What, exactly, are the implications of unsouled 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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"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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In the composition I have chosen for our illustration, this reduplication is employed to a singular extent.
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Simple reduplication is mostly confined to family appellations and such adverbial phrases as man-man, “slowly.”
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