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.
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Share learnings with the team to build trust and prevent repetition.—Gisela Carere, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025 These lessons are essential not only for historical literacy but also for understanding and preventing the repetition of past mistakes.—Jane Tanaka, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2025 Like all babies, my youngest son learned this through arduous repetition.—Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2025 Both deal with tourism and both use repetition, which is the call of all advertisements of empire.—Cindy Juyoung Ok
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Etymology
Middle English repeticion, from Middle French, from Latin repetition-, repetitio, from repetere to repeat
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