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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Their days were spent learning dull, repetitive tasks.—
Robert Rubsam,
The Atlantic,
21 June 2025
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The repetitive movements of your office chair gliding across the same patch of floor over and over can wear down your floor over the years and create an area of the floor that is lighter in color than the floor surrounding it.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2025
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