tautologous

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tautologous
Adjective
  • Your answer is almost tautological, right?
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2025
  • More realistically, production is a tautological signal of money in circulation, not the existence of central banks, mints, Treasuries, monetary authorities, or economists advising all four more broadly.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Watching Joanne and Noah quite literally retrace their steps from the first finale makes all that happens in the second season feel that much more redundant.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Parmar also deliberately streamlines clinic notes by encouraging his providers to avoid the common habit of copying and pasting blocks of obsolete or redundant information in favor of quick updates that can be scanned easily at subsequent visits.
    Helen Ouyang, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Other once-promising supporting players are reduced to repetitious stalling patterns.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The repetitious questions did not throw him off his course.
    Ann Patchett, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Tautologous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tautologous. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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