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as in reproduction
something that is made to look exactly like something else
that old-looking colonial mansion is actually a 20th-century reduplication of the original, which was destroyed many years ago
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as in repetition
the act of saying or doing over again
ever since I was forced to do a reduplication of a day's work, I've been more conscientious about hitting my computer's "save" button
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Recent Examples of reduplication
And yet…the rhyme schemes, the reduplication, the semantic shifts, the conversions, the deliberate grammatical oddities, and rich double entendres–Carpenter is, for some people, the greatest poet to have ever put pen to paper.
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Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2024
TikTok is a compound word that’s called (take a deep breath) an ablaut-shift reduplication because only the internal vowel changes.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2024
The collection, dubbed with another fun reduplication, Bon Bon, was inspired by the packaging for the Apple AirPods.
—Leilani Marie Labong, SFChronicle.com, 26 June 2018
Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2024
TikTok is a compound word that’s called (take a deep breath) an ablaut-shift reduplication because only the internal vowel changes.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2024
The collection, dubbed with another fun reduplication, Bon Bon, was inspired by the packaging for the Apple AirPods.
—Leilani Marie Labong, SFChronicle.com, 26 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reduplication
Noun
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But the law of plantation reproduction revolved around profit.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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De Souza, a journalist in Philadelphia, now wishes that class had included the basics of fertility and reproduction.—
Olga Khazan,
The Atlantic,
21 Sep. 2025
Noun
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And through this mind-numbing repetition, Harbaugh achieves his goal.—
Daniel Popper,
New York Times,
22 Sep. 2025
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Elements inspired by Constantin Brâncusi’s Endless Column appear throughout, emphasizing Blahnik’s interest in geometry and repetition — qualities echoed in the design of his pointed heels.—
Maggie Clancy,
Footwear News,
21 Sep. 2025
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Hickory Hills resident Bret Kittle requested a copy of the audit on behalf of the community.—
Andy Humbles,
Nashville Tennessean,
22 Sep. 2025
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Only one copy of the poem existed.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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With 2020’s roguelike Hades, Supergiant Games mastered the hypnotic allure of the live-die-repeat cycle by making every attempt have meaning.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
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Other repeat winners include Special Jury Prize winner Historias del buen valle (Good Valley Stories), a Spanish-French co-production helmed by José Luis Guerin, who previously won the same accolade with 2001’s En construcción (Work in Progress).—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
27 Sep. 2025
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Her father had bought it at the county fair; the vender, mistaking it for yet another replica Native ceremonial mask, had all but given it away.—
David Wright Faladé,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 2025
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The model rocket that currently sits atop the Baltimore Avenue building is a replica of the Moonliner II placed there after the building was refurbished in the early 2000s to resemble the red and white motif of the former TWA headquarters.—
Chris Ochsner,
Kansas City Star,
28 Sep. 2025
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Second, Tesla’s training approach, shifting toward vision-only imitation learning from human camera data, represents a strategic attempt to scale skill acquisition without hand-crafting controllers for each task.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Sep. 2025
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To play the role, White spent hours studying Springsteen—listening to his memoir on tape, watching old interviews—but knew to avoid imitation.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Reduplication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reduplication. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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