as in redundant
marked by repetition the repetitive lyrics of so many rock songs

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Recent Examples of repetitive Post-Europe is a response to this seemingly repetitive situation and the increasing tendency of legitimating a nationalist and fascist discourse. Daniel Birnbaum, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2025 For the first time, machines can perform not only repetitive tasks, but cognitive work once reserved for humans. Marc Benioff, Time, 28 Aug. 2025 Respondents cited repetitive tasks, lack of appreciation, and rising expectations without corresponding pay increases. Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Aug. 2025 My frustration comes from how shockingly repetitive the show is formally. Joe Reid, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for repetitive
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Adjective
  • Neural networks are surprisingly inefficient learners and contain a lot of redundant information, says Mugel, which leaves a lot of room for optimization.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Sep. 2025
  • This makes Green less redundant of Booker’s style than his past two co-stars were.
    Mat Issa, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Ultimately, this film’s absurd existentialist deadpan aligns Lanthimos’ work here closer to Ruben Östlund than ever — himself a filmmaker likely drawing from Lanthimos these days — to mine the comedy of repetitious futility to disorienting effect.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Irakli’s search is less mission than meander, one that only lags during a slightly repetitious late stretch, before Koberidze gets us back.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 17 Aug. 2025
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  • There are also concerns that CIISA’s work is duplicative of standards already in place across the industry.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Logging everything, all the time, creates massive volumes of low-context, duplicative or irrelevant data.
    Bill Hineline, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Repetitive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repetitive. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.

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