tautology
Example Sentences
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On one level, this is a fairly ridiculous tautology.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2024
It’s such a distortion I don’t think you could even call it a tautology.
From Slate • Mar. 3, 2023
The anthropic principle is a tautology masquerading as a truth, but it has proved remarkably resilient.
From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2021
Offices have long been something of a tautology: Companies have needed offices because to be a company, you had to have an office.
From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2021
That was a point; could not tautology exaggerate it?
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
