as in redundant
marked by repetition
the repetitive lyrics of so many rock songs
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Recent Examples of repetitive
The bots executed this repetitive and physically demanding job for 10 hours a day, five days a week.
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New Atlas, 7 Mar. 2026
All of this has been a long time coming, given how repetitive and stagnant the NHL’s Final Four has become, and it’s been facilitated partly by (a) the salary cap finally opening up post-pandemic and (b) the aging out of the cores of so many of the old guard.
—James Mirtle, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2026
The ping of pickleball play produces a uniquely piercing and repetitive sound that has led to contentious lawsuits and controversies across the entire country, including just north in Fox Point, as the sport has rapidly grown in popularity over the last few years.
—Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 3 Mar. 2026
The ten-minute video makes visible the repetitive labor of slow, wordless coiling.
—Anel Rakhimzhanova, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026
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New Atlas, 7 Mar. 2026
All of this has been a long time coming, given how repetitive and stagnant the NHL’s Final Four has become, and it’s been facilitated partly by (a) the salary cap finally opening up post-pandemic and (b) the aging out of the cores of so many of the old guard.
—James Mirtle, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2026
The ping of pickleball play produces a uniquely piercing and repetitive sound that has led to contentious lawsuits and controversies across the entire country, including just north in Fox Point, as the sport has rapidly grown in popularity over the last few years.
—Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 3 Mar. 2026
The ten-minute video makes visible the repetitive labor of slow, wordless coiling.
—Anel Rakhimzhanova, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for repetitive
Adjective
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Achieving this level of reliability will require fault tolerance through redundant encoding of quantum information in logical qubits, each consisting of hundreds of physical qubits, thus requiring a total of about a million physical qubits.—
Chi Chen,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 Mar. 2026
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Ellison too has invested a great deal in improving the product offering on Paramount+ and intends to do more, and further patching up HBO Max could easily be redundant.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
27 Feb. 2026
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The Gophers will find just enough creative (and repetitious) ways to get the ball to Taylor in space to earn their first road win.—
Andy Greder,
Twin Cities,
20 Nov. 2025
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Other once-promising supporting players are reduced to repetitious stalling patterns.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
16 Oct. 2025
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And in unassuming buildings scattered across Los Angeles, a reiterative imagining of community theater would continue, one Thursday night at a time.—
Emma Madden,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Mar. 2026
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As a result, many are duplicative of files stored elsewhere in the DOJ’s online tranche of Epstein files.—
Elliott Ramos,
CBS News,
3 Mar. 2026
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Is that from combining duplicative operations?—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
3 Mar. 2026
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“Repetitive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repetitive. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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