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repetition

[rep-i-tish-uhn] / ˌrɛp ɪˈtɪʃ ən /


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More elaborate designs, including hatched bands, grids, and diamond-shaped motifs, also showed evidence of rotation, translation, repetition, and "embedding," i.e., the ability to build hierarchical levels of signs within the same surface.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

My mother, an excellent cook, understood repetition better.

From Salon Jul. 28, 2026

Before raw quality or star names are considered, Tuchel had in mind the type of team he wanted to see, leaning on specific tactics and the aforementioned "repetition of patterns".

From BBC Jul. 16, 2026

Settings like this are a good place to start, since they’re controlled environments that involve plenty of repetition, rather than unpredictable elements.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

It featured the hallmarks of most pre-school literature: repetition, some kind of annoying rhyming, and bold-faced scientific lies.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

"We are talking about people who did not simply draw lines, but organized them according to recurring principles -- parallelisms, grids, rotations and systematic repetitions: a visual grammar in embryo."

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

As it’s around 300 pages long, including innumerable repetitions, you may ask if the length and density is a bug or a feature.

From MarketWatch Jun. 10, 2026

"Keely can be doing certain repetitions, and she's being physically sick from the lactic acid. It's a little bit inhumane at times."

From BBC Feb. 20, 2026

Andy Akiho’s clever music mechanically parrots the repetitions in the text and grows increasingly frantic as the students’ frustration and discomfort escalate—they hate her and they want her to notice them.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 11, 2026

She was weary of repetitions, weary of circumlocutions, weary of everything.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov




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