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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The stitch-by-stitch repetition offers a calming rhythm in a chaotic world.—Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025 Its repetition is both insistent and emptying; there is (literally) nothing but road in those lines.—Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025 The book talked about repetition without repetition.—Joe Boylan, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025 Hold for a second and then return to the starting position, completing multiple repetitions (reps).—Jakob Roze, Health, 14 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for repetition
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Etymology
Middle English repeticion, from Middle French, from Latin repetition-, repetitio, from repetere to repeat
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