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repeat

[ri-peet] / rɪˈpit /
NOUN
something done over; duplicate
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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

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

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

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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