How to Use tautological in a Sentence

tautological

adjective

• That may sound tautological, but a closer look at the data suggests that lower courts are using Heller to judge which claims are strong and which are weak.
  — Joseph Blocher and Eric Ruben, Vox, 14 June 2018
• To serve the fans with the insights of critics by way of the corporate stewardship of the very things being criticized feels like a tautological exercise.
  — The Editors, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2017
• But his reputation is a tautological loop — and one that has proven difficult to escape.
  — Cody Delistraty, The Cut, 5 Sep. 2017
• The formula is plain-spoken but also evasive; its tautological aspect works to push the details of the subject under discussion into the background.
  — Mattathias Schwartz, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2020
• Since those programs can go bankrupt only if Congress connives for that to happen, this is a curiously tautological mandate.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022
• To some readers this may sound almost tautological, but as Gray points out, the denial of the existence of a transcendent god is not inherently a denial of religious truth, because not all religions are theistic.
  — Christopher Beha, The New York Review of Books, 21 Feb. 2019
• No one bothered to explain whether the campaign was hosting the local grassroots organization, or vice versa, because the question is mostly tautological.
  — Alexander Zaitchik, The New Republic, 7 Feb. 2020
• His work is simply there, looming, draining, tautological.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2019
• In obesity research, this tautological logic — saying the same thing in two different ways but offering no explanation for either — was allowed to become the central dogmatic truth.
  — Gary Taubes, STAT, 16 Sep. 2021
• There are countless claims like these, almost all of them unsubstantiated, tautological or otherwise self-serving.
  — Calvin Baker, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2017
• At the other extreme from Ford’s almost tautological approach is the claim that only proof beyond a reasonable doubt that a President committed criminal offenses can justify an impeachment.
  — Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, 19 May 2018
• Begging the question actually means posing or answering a question in a circular or tautological manner; your conclusion is foregone.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2021
• Attempting to define this unique, curvilinear object is a tautological exercise.
  — Liz Raiss, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2022
• Another of the remarkable aspects of this history is that the fundamentally tautological nature of energy-balance thinking has been so infrequently discussed.
  — Gary Taubes, STAT, 16 Sep. 2021
• Limiting social media may seem impossible, or tautological.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024