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

"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

What, exactly, are the implications of unsouled reduplication?

From Time Magazine Archive

The reduplication of the consonant after a vowel, as in spotted, torrent, is in most cases but an orthographical expedient.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

No. 1376 is the common dentiled cornice, which occurs repeatedly in St. Mark’s; and, as late as the thirteenth century, a reduplication of it, forming the abaci of the capitals of the Piazzetta shafts.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John