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- even though the phrase "free gift" is a redundancy, many retailers still use it to assure customers that an item is really free
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- there's a redundancy of high-priced restaurants in the area
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- several dozen employees at the London office were lost to redundancy
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“Redundancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/redundancy. Accessed 26 May. 2022.
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The first known use of redundancy was in 1601
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