tautology

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The McSmiths are also undeterred by the seeming tautology of presenting comic reinterpretations of comedies.

From New York Times

I often seem to arrive at a tautology: Digestive liqueurs are so categorized because you drink them after a meal.

From Washington Post

But then he writes, “Racism is a marriage of racist policies and racist ideas that produces and normalizes racial inequities” — an exercise in pure tautology.

From Washington Post

And in the process, he played us all into the great game, the cosmic tautology, of an existence in love with itself.

From Washington Post

When I asked McConnell why, he offered only a tautology: “The way I expressed myself was the way I thought I ought to express myself.”

From New York Times