REPEATING Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

repeating

verb

Definition of repeating

present participle of repeat

as in reiterating

to say or state again I repeated the address over and over until I had it memorized

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Relevance

as in reciting

to give from memory repeated correctly all the verses she had memorized

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reading

as in echoing

to say after another now repeat the oath after me

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as in replicating

to make or do again try not to repeat your mistakes

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Recent Examples of repeating Instead of splintering, the waves naturally organize themselves into repeating geometric loops. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026 History was now repeating itself in the United States, Kristofcak thought. — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026 There's enough variety to eat every meal on-property without repeating yourself. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2026 Follow the subject, but check where the claim came from before repeating it. — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 25 Sep. 2026 Victims of gun violence, police violence, robberies, and addictions walk the streets outside, repeating their last movements, behaviors, and desires. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2026 Instead, many productivity issues stem from operational friction, such as when teams lose time finding information, reconciling priorities, navigating approvals, repeating manual work and waiting for decisions. — Sumit Srivastava, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026 Toshpulodzoda is a snapshot of a situation that keeps repeating itself under Descano, a Washington Examiner review of cases found. — Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 21 Sep. 2026 Most pressure-sensitive adhesives are based on polymers, long chains of repeating molecular units that become entangled with one another. — New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for repeating

Verb

Attorney General Todd Blanche defended the White House’s reporter ban on Sunday, reiterating that it was implemented for national security purposes.

— Carter Schroppe, The Washington Examiner, 27 Sep. 2026
The Block the Merger coalition and other opponents of the deal have filed amicus briefs reiterating their objections.

— Dade Hayes, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of reiterating

Verb

There is no noise of a breaking string echoing in the distance — the stage direction that pushed Chekhov’s final dramatic landscape toward Beckettian absurdism before Beckett was born.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
Scrunching buttered phyllo sheets instead of layering them flat creates dramatic height and shatteringly crisp texture, echoing spanakopita while remaining unfussy.

— Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of echoing

Verb

My learning is more about understanding the mechanics of performance, the how, rather than replicating the why behind human emotions.

— Corbin Bolies, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026
Cunha’s strength has been in replicating some of the things that helped Murillo build his reputation in England.

— Paul Taylor, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of replicating

Verb

Each barrel ahs a separate and independent gear train, one providing energy to the gear train that powers the time and perpetual calendar indications (with a 48-hour power reserve), and the other to the gear train that drives the chiming functions.

— Carol Besler, Robb Report, 10 Sep. 2026
Like a godsend Gregoria appears at a jog, her ring of keys chiming.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of chiming

Verb

Instead of memorizing how to navigate a trading platform, an investor of any experience level can now simply describe an objective in plain language.

— John Bartleman, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
In other words, cruise etiquette isn’t about memorizing a list of dos and don’ts.

— Jill Schildhouse, Southern Living, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of memorizing

Verb

The industry relies on, in part, geometry, manufacturability recommendations, quoting accuracy and more.

— Marc Kermisch, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026
The vehicles will use an 800 V electric architecture, and the company is quoting a DC fast-charging time of around 30 minutes to 80 percent.

— Chad Kirchner, ArsTechnica, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of quoting

Verb

More recently, in 2023, Belarusian embassies abroad stopped extending or renewing passports entirely, putting dissidents who fled the country in a similar bind to those from Myanmar.

— Andrew Nachemson, The Dial, 22 Sep. 2026
The oversight body is not renewing itself fast enough to be positioned for the wave of transitions it will eventually be asked to govern.

— Shawn Cole, Forbes.com, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of renewing

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