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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Verb
  • Funyyzo Wide-Leg Pants Inspired by Kelly Clarkson Or, consider copying Clarkson’s red-hot look with these vibrant pants that have amassed more than 5,100 perfect ratings.
    Averi Baudler, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Marasco has accused Swift and her co-defendants of copying her poetry in lyrics and visuals from multiple albums, including , , and .
    Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Advertisement Someone with aphasia might have difficulty forming full sentences, instead repeating jumbled words, or will start slurring.
    Angela Haupt, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
  • In addition to the repeating co-branded logo seen throughout the boot, Supreme’s red box logo tab is found on the lateral side.
    Riley Jones, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Quietly, evil collapsed, while Maloyan’s virtue stood firm against brutal force, rendering that force powerless.
    Jenni Fink, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Other federal programs like the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement are also in limbo, rendering food banks unable to order supplies from the federal government.
    Heather Bushman, IndyStar, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • More importantly, this origin story of a movie and a movement apes the joie de moviemaking and the jazzy looseness of the original to an absolutely amazing degree, replicating an off-the-cuff feeling that’s more than a second-hand buzz.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Fission splits the nuclei of atoms to create power while fusion causes hydrogen nuclei to collide and fuse into helium atoms that release incredible amounts of energy — essentially replicating the power of the sun.
    Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Criterion Channel's Body Horror collection features macabre stories involving a woman and her tentacled creature lover (Possession), a woman self-reproducing odd children through rage (The Brood), and more disturbing visuals that will keep you up all night.
    EW Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
  • However, the ad selects and splices certain lines from the five-minute address rather than playing the remarks in the order they were delivered or reproducing the speech in its entirety.
    Michael Collins, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • All the more reason to shop around before renewing your policy, said Daniel Bortz, personal finance editor at AARP.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Zimbabwe is renewing efforts to ditch the US dollar as the dominant form of tender in the southern African nation by leaning on government officials to de-dollarize the economy by 2030.
    Tawanda Karombo, semafor.com, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Maybe that was just art-making imitating life.
    Thomas Page, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
  • How does this help democracy, imitating what Texas is doing?
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 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 7 Nov. 2025.

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