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dittoing

verb

present participle of ditto
as in echoing
to say after another since you've said what I wanted to say—only better—I will just ditto your comments in my final report

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dittoing
  1. echoing
  2. quoting
  3. repeating
Verb
  • There is no noise of a breaking string echoing in the distance — the stage direction that pushed Chekhov’s final dramatic landscape toward Beckettian absurdism before Beckett was born.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Scrunching buttered phyllo sheets instead of layering them flat creates dramatic height and shatteringly crisp texture, echoing spanakopita while remaining unfussy.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of echoing
Verb
  • The drag queen, Alyssa Edwards, responded on social media, thanking Talarico and quoting the Bible.
    — Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Lee placed the partnership in the context of a broader argument about local content and global reach, quoting Martin Scorsese.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of quoting
Verb
  • Toshpulodzoda is a snapshot of a situation that keeps repeating itself under Descano, a Washington Examiner review of cases found.
    — Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Most pressure-sensitive adhesives are based on polymers, long chains of repeating molecular units that become entangled with one another.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of repeating
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“Dittoing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dittoing. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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