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Examples of over and over in a Sentence
the little girl demanded over and over to be picked up so she could see the performers on stage
Recent Examples on the Web
However, ‘luck’ strangely tends to find the same people—over and over.
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Todd Nordstrom, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
One of the biggest concerns in streaming is a tendency by media companies to serve the same ad over and over to a single subscriber — a bid to deliver guarantees of impressions in a venue where people often watch programs at moments of their own choosing, not in giant crowds.
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Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Feb. 2025
The price point to enter the park, $40 for a two-hour experience, is designed to bring people back over and over.
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Ritu Upadhyay, WWD, 18 Feb. 2025
Wildfires have only really started impacting communities at scale continuously over and over in very recent times.
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Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2025
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First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of over and over was
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“Over and over.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/over%20and%20over. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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over and over
adverb
: many times : often
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