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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
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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
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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
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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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