reduplication

Example Sentences

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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."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

A couple of tall cheval-glasses added to the mystery of the room with their reduplication of shadowy corners.

From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton

One of the predominant features is the complete absence of reduplication of consonants, the aversion to groups of consonants, and the care taken to complete the sound of final mute consonants by an epenthetic vowel.

From Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language by Webster, Wentworth