Verb
Will you repeat the question?
He kept repeating the same thing over and over.
He often has to ask people to repeat themselves because he's a little deaf. Repeat after me: “I promise to do my best…”.
You are simply repeating, in slightly different words, what has been said already.
My five-year-old can repeat her favorite stories word for word. Noun
Most of the customers are repeats.
No, I don't want to watch that. It's a repeat.
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Verb
These swaps can be repeated among multiple anyons—a process called anyon braiding.—Ananya Palivela, Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2025 For example, rather than simply making details more complex to express functionality, the approach was to repeat small functional units and reflect that repetition in the overall silhouette of the design.—Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
Kentucky's persistent felony offender (PFO) law, enacted in 1974 and expanded in 1976, allows for enhanced sentences for repeat felony offenders.—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025 With over 200 projects in its robust portfolio, Harte Brownlee & Associates offers a wealth of experience that has earned it many repeat clients, some returning for their fourth or fifth project with the firm.—Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Fresh off of her repeat Emmy nomination for her role in Apple TV+’s Shrinking, Jessica Williams popped by her old haunt at The Daily Show to discuss how president Donald Trump is scapegoating famous Black people to distract from the mounting pressure over the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 28 July 2025 Major League Baseball hasn’t had a repeat World Series champion since the New York Yankees pulled off a three-peat more than two decades ago.—Don Yaeger, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for repeat
Word History
Etymology
Verb
Middle English repeten, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French repeter, from Old French, from Latin repetere to return to, repeat, from re- + petere to go to, seek — more at feather
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