Sometimes repetition is necessary to drive a point home.
Children's songs involve lots of repetition.
I quit my job at the factory because I hated the mindless repetition.
Recent Examples on the WebBut the image, which features blurring, unusual shadows and pattern repetition typical of artificial intelligence, appears to be fake.—Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2024 Horstmann acknowledges that, for some musicians, the repetition of touring can be a roadblock.—Marisa Whitaker, SPIN, 28 May 2024 There’s an almost mathematical playfulness to the way Hamaguchi shuffles characters and identities and toys with repetition and substitution.—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 3 May 2024 Israeli officials reject the genocide accusation, saying the intent of their military operation is not to wipe out Palestinians, but to wipe out Hamas and prevent a repetition of its Oct. 7 attack that Israel says killed 1,200 soldiers and civilians.—Adrian Florido, NPR, 18 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for repetition
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English repeticion, from Middle French, from Latin repetition-, repetitio, from repetere to repeat
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