as in repetitive
marked by repetition
at a real trial, repetitious questioning by the attorneys makes the whole affair less than thrilling
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Recent Examples of repetitious
Lost among the repetitious Yankees and Mets hot stove babble, is something icy hot.
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Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 21 Dec. 2024
Mundane, repetitious jobs will certainly be replaced using AI.
—Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2024
Without the freedom to learn the individual quirks of each game at their pace, players are instead forced to learn in a repetitious trial by fire.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2024
Imagining David Mamet, who knows a thing or two about telling stories exactly like this in a more satisfying 90 minutes, taking a red pen to all the repetitious dialogue in Culprits — or the text of this review — is as entertaining as the series itself.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
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Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 21 Dec. 2024
Mundane, repetitious jobs will certainly be replaced using AI.
—Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2024
Without the freedom to learn the individual quirks of each game at their pace, players are instead forced to learn in a repetitious trial by fire.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2024
Imagining David Mamet, who knows a thing or two about telling stories exactly like this in a more satisfying 90 minutes, taking a red pen to all the repetitious dialogue in Culprits — or the text of this review — is as entertaining as the series itself.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for repetitious
repetitive
Adjective
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There’s too much time spent on dull, repetitive family dynamics.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
16 May 2025
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Farsi’s movie may be straightforward in form, perhaps too repetitive at times, but that also seems to be the point.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
15 May 2025
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“Repetitious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repetitious. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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