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tautologous

ADJECTIVE
circumlocutionary
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And it has, in the course of that educational process, occurred to me that it does border on tautologous.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2021

“Royal regalia” is therefore tautologous, and “the regalia of a bishop” is contradictory.

From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2017

If this is so, then talk of the comic novel is tautologous.

From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2010

The author repeats himself, achieving a sort of tautologous stammer: "What would prove to be decisive in her decision," or the "hearing would not be heard for at least another hour."

From Time Magazine Archive

And the tautologous, useless nature of the hypothesis in the second forces the theory back to the first view.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.




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