reduplicates

present tense third-person singular of reduplicate
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as in repeats
to make or do again found out halfway through the project that I was reduplicating another team member's efforts, so we had to figure out who was going to do what

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reduplicates
Verb
  • As Office alumni branched out, copies begat copies.
    Jesse Hassenger, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Typically said when someone copies a trend, latches onto a friend's obsession, or just teases in a playful way.
    Annabelle Canela, Parents, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Elinor soon repeats the information to Colonel Brandon.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
  • After that first action, the process repeats, always recalibrating based on the latest available data.
    John Drake, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And in June, Erdős and Volodymyr Riabov posted a paper that reproduces Yau and Yin’s one-dimensional result for a broader class of band matrices.
    Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Dynamic magnetism model offers insights beyond plutonium By incorporating temperature-dependent magnetic states, the model accurately reproduces the unusual experimental observation that delta-plutonium contracts at high temperatures.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The poster starts by making some chirping noises, which the cat replicates.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The fractured narrative replicates the characters’ fractured perspectives.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The current system of revisions renders an important set of numbers impossible to use.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 7 Sep. 2025
  • To put it mildly, Longo is disheartened by the political climate, by the bullying and attacks on democracy, by war, by the language that renders America as a sports team.
    Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The fall release slate comes as Pushkin also renews its podcast ad sales and distribution pact with iHeartMedia.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Regeneration renews ecosystems after disruption.
    Scott Hutcheson, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Reduplicates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reduplicates. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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