reduplicating

present participle of reduplicate
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as in repeating
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 reduplicating
Verb
  • Pet owner Saige shared an adorable clip on TikTok (@saigescho) showing her white rescue kitten, Maude, copying the antics of her long-haired chihuahua, Alfie.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • My translation is not copying but an artistic act.
    Robert Minhinnick, The Dial, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Oli systematically begins to pick them up, walking steadily between the basket and the floor, dropping the balls in the tennis ball hopper one by one, repeating the process with consistent precision.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Like that pair, the upcoming Air Max 95 features red and green striping with repeating Undefeated branding and a patent leather toe wrap.
    Riley Jones, Footwear News, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The costs of reproducing living labor varied in response to struggle.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Without people in the loop, AI risks reproducing the inherent problems that it is meant to avoid, including discrimination, institutional incompetence and overall distrust.
    Gangesh Pathak, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Miller started with strikeouts of Seiya Suzuki, Kelly and Crow-Armstrong, replicating the sequence of events from his one-inning appearance a day earlier.
    Dennis Lin, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Hailey Bieber, too, has given the sneaker a seal of approval, strutting around in its ombré, yellow-and-orange version in London while confirming that the trench coat and Nike Shox combo is one worthy of replicating this fall.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • What about the Black artist who, like countless artists before, has his own reasons for rendering nature?
    Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
  • After allegedly fleeing the scene without rendering aid or calling authorities, the Louisiana native was charged with negligent homicide, felony hit-and-run and reckless operation of a vehicle.
    Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • During the Bears’ 0-2 start last month, Stevenson struggled in pass coverage, renewing concerns about his ability to reach his next developmental checkpoint.
    Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The fee will apply whether the driver is being issued a license for the first time or renewing their license.
    Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Only one case has resulted in federal charges for imitating an officer – another break from the past four administrations, when roughly half of the ICE-imposter cases were charged under federal statutes.
    Allison Gordon, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The fact that these programs are becoming adept at imitating consciousness, however, may be all that matters for now.
    Webb Wright, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Bidirectional edges connected the robots to each other, because each robot had to know what other robots were doing at each time step to avoid collisions or duplicating tasks.
    Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The remaining one-third involves SG&A costs, split between restructuring sales and marketing operations and duplicating corporate functions such as finance, HR, and legal.
    Joe Cornell, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Reduplicating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reduplicating. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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