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 Over the course of a repetitious goal-to-go drill, Mahomes caught fire. Sam McDowell 6, Kansas City Star, 6 Aug. 2025 Optimus is a humanoid, bipedal, general-purpose robot created by Tesla that can carry out activities that humans find tedious, repetitious, or hazardous. Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025 Scenarios play out all the same, filled with repetitious melee take-down animations on loop. Kazuma Hashimoto, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025 United’s problems have been painfully repetitious, so fix the problems, fix the culture, fix the dressing room and endure the pain that comes with it. Andy Mitten, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for repetitious
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repetitive
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  • Advertisement An oversaturated marketplace of repetitive titles, inaccurate financial projections, and poor management temporarily overshadowed the debate over the technology’s social impact.
    Time, Time, 8 Oct. 2025
  • But amid the repetitive jump scares lies a thoroughly scary and satisfying concluding chapter to Stephen King’s classic story.
    Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 2025

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“Repetitious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repetitious. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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