tautology
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The court, he said, reduced that to a tautology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
On one level, this is a fairly ridiculous tautology.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2024
I just say “the novel”; which isn’t an answer, it’s a tautology — but a necessary one maybe.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2022
A: “Family is family” isn’t really an argument so much as a tautology.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2020
“You don’t know what a tautology is, do you?” he asked.
From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie
Too true, in the way that tautologies always are: Anti-Jewish hatred is indeed antisemitism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2024
To quote one of my favorite tautologies, from David Mamet’s “Heist”: “Everybody wants money. That’s why they call it money.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2017
Anyone with a rudimentary grasp of rhetoric and logic who reads The Food Babe Way will be overwhelmed by tautologies, fallacies, non-sequiturs, and false dichotomies.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2015
There are no real generalities that can be made about a group of 50,000 people that are not tautologies.
From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2012
“Are you going to bore me with your tautologies all day or are you going to actually say something?”
From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie
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