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repeat

[ri-peet] / rɪˈpit /
NOUN
something done over; duplicate
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Rouhani says that without the full backing of the major powers and a genuine commitment to international law and its enforcement, the world will simply keep watching the same devastating pattern repeat itself.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

With 11 days between games, McVay, his staff and the players are intent on avoiding a repeat performance.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

Familiar tilings such as checkerboards and honeycombs repeat in a regular way.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

I don’t want you to repeat this, Peter, but here’s how things are going to play out after the merger.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Jonah watched a girl repeat the same process.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The primary theme repeats a climbing four-note figure three times before a sudden plunge of a full octave.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

Dow clinches its worst September start since 2008 as history repeats itself.

From MarketWatch Sep. 16, 2026

Every subsequent concert just rinses and repeats the same story.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

“The Second Lady said, ‘Well, you can have one of two things,” JD Vance says in this “joke” he repeats frequently.

From Salon Sep. 4, 2026

“A cocktail party,” Mama repeats with an even worse British accent.

From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi

Turnover among executives and ownership gave him repeated openings to make wholesale changes, a shift that coincided with California’s drought crisis.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 21, 2026

For troops’ families, such abstractions, repeated in media discourse, have concrete consequences when their loved ones don’t come home on time.

From Salon Sep. 19, 2026

Although the UK has, over the years, produced some of the world's most successful artists, that kind of success has rarely been repeated at Eurovision.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

After repeated currency crises and a long stretch of unorthodox monetary policy earlier this decade, foreign investors pulled back from the market.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

I talked late into the night, until I had repeated every story I knew a dozen times, so tonight I told a real story.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

It is a chilling dynamic that keeps repeating itself in American culture, and one at the heart of “American Hostage,” a dramatic miniseries making its debut Sunday on MGM+.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

What stood out in the Johns Hopkins study was the presence of much smaller, repeating swellings in axons examined under conditions intended to preserve their normal structure.

From Science Daily Sep. 17, 2026

Robinson was in prison at the time for repeating defamatory statements about a Syrian teenager, against court orders.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

Or the repeating, joyous escalator of “na, na, na, na-na-na-na!” at the end of The Beatles‘ “Hey Jude.”

From Salon Sep. 13, 2026

When you are repeating large sections in more informally written music, you may simply find instructions in the music such as "to refrain," "to bridge," "to verses," etc.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones




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