repeat
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Everton then spent £97m before the 2025-26 campaign - a club record net outlay in a summer transfer window - to repeat the same finish having accrued one more point.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Salish doesn’t like to repeat outfits on videos, so she does need at least one new outfit a week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
But he also doesn’t expect to see a repeat of such a day, given so many factors had fused together to drive Friday’s action.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
Vivas warned of a repeat of the crisis of May 2021, when more than 8,000 migrants reached Ceuta over a two-day period.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The flight was the greatest adventure of his life, and Jeremy couldn't wait to repeat it.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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These drills include developing Taiwan’s use of “backbriefs,” where the person receiving instructions repeats it back to the leadership as confirmation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Humans are raised to accept such things are part of a cycle that repeats no matter what we do, and regardless of whether whatever we’re doing impacts that cycle.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Belgium must hope history repeats itself, after they beat Spain on penalties in the quarter-finals of Mexico '86.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Hartnett repeats a view from last week’s Flow Show strategy note in which he picked consumer stocks as his preferred contrarian play to benefit from the peace dividend should the conflict with Iran conclusively end.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026
It was quite long; I did the repeats, and it was going well—when all at once I heard his cane tapping behind me.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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At the height of the fighting in the main breach, after repeated Ottoman attacks had been beaten back, Giustiniani was badly wounded and withdrew to seek treatment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The findings indicate that early snake evolution involved repeated movement between underground, terrestrial and marine environments.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
The department’s own records described repeated installation failures and extensive peeling of the pool liner weeks before the alleged vandalism was ever said to have occurred.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Athena says suspensions are reserved for "serious or repeated breaches of behaviour expectations" and that rates have fallen significantly in the past year.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
“A medicinal tar pit,” the widow repeated, as if in a trance.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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Prosecutors asked that the charges be dismissed because the evidence no longer supported Pirro’s claim, evidence that, it bears repeating, had been available to the government the entire time.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Rather than relying only on patterns arranged across space, the photonic time crystal introduces a repeating pattern in time.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
Nobody will be betting a brass farthing on history repeating itself, though.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
“It’s a sad song, but we sing it anyway,” Hermes reminds us, and it’s a sentiment worth repeating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
She wasn’t making any sense, but she kept repeating the same thing in Spanish.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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