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tautology
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That tautology, in the age of Trump, is now a matter of judicial precedent.—
Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
29 Apr. 2025 -
Saying ‘Hungary is for Hungarians’ or ‘America is for Americans’ is a tautology.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Pleonasm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pleonasm. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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