as in repetitive
marked by repetition
duplicative efforts in this area that are just a waste of time
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Recent Examples of duplicative
The answer was equally basic at first, eliminate costly reconciliations and duplicative ledgers that plague capital markets.
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Christer Holloman, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
After a long process of validating legitimate claims and tossing out the ones that were fraudulent or duplicative, Angeion, the company in charge of distributing the payments, has finished its calculations determining how much each individual will get as payments go out starting this month.
—Alix Martichoux, The Hill, 11 Sep. 2025
There are also concerns that CIISA’s work is duplicative of standards already in place across the industry.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
This could eliminate duplicative efforts and speed up multinational drug approvals.
—Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
The three-year, government-wide redesign effort could fundamentally change how citizens access federal services while potentially saving taxpayers millions in duplicative design costs.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Aug. 2025
Christer Holloman, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
After a long process of validating legitimate claims and tossing out the ones that were fraudulent or duplicative, Angeion, the company in charge of distributing the payments, has finished its calculations determining how much each individual will get as payments go out starting this month.
—Alix Martichoux, The Hill, 11 Sep. 2025
There are also concerns that CIISA’s work is duplicative of standards already in place across the industry.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
This could eliminate duplicative efforts and speed up multinational drug approvals.
—Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
The three-year, government-wide redesign effort could fundamentally change how citizens access federal services while potentially saving taxpayers millions in duplicative design costs.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for duplicative
repetitive
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Now, many employers are looking to harness the power of AI—initially for mundane and repetitive tasks and eventually for more complicated jobs—to reduce the need to maintain the same level of human staffers on their payrolls.—
Jason Del Rey,
Fortune,
15 Oct. 2025
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Are martial arts becoming repetitive with G1?—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Duplicative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duplicative. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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