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repetition

[rep-i-tish-uhn] / ˌrɛp ɪˈtɪʃ ən /


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With a beveled chord progression and a haunting repetition of the name, it became perhaps her most requested song, and was covered by many, including the White Stripes, Candi Staton, Reba McEntire and Olivia Newton-John.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

"The surprising thing was how strongly repetition alone can change preferences," explains Wagner.

From Science Daily Aug. 13, 2026

The ability to hold another person’s reality alongside one’s own, without reducing it or rewriting it, requires training, repetition and exposure.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2026

It isn’t some priceless antiquity that needs to be preserved only by faithful repetition and emulation.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

I had missed the morning Bulletin on my set at home, and half-listened now, my mind elsewhere, until the repetition of the name several times caught my ear at last and stopped my pacing.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Mr. and Mrs. Chandler have done their own silent scrubbing of the texts and acknowledge “omitting unneeded repetitions and Soviet clichés.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

"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

In a black headset fit for a pop star, she paces around the studio in a black unitard, leading the class through repetitions and poses.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 15, 2025

One hundred repetitions three nights a week for four years, thought Bernard Marx, who was a specialist on hypnopsedia.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley




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