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as in reproduction
something that is made to look exactly like something else
that old-looking colonial mansion is actually a 20th-century reduplication of the original, which was destroyed many years ago
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as in repetition
the act of saying or doing over again
ever since I was forced to do a reduplication of a day's work, I've been more conscientious about hitting my computer's "save" button
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Recent Examples of reduplication
And yet…the rhyme schemes, the reduplication, the semantic shifts, the conversions, the deliberate grammatical oddities, and rich double entendres–Carpenter is, for some people, the greatest poet to have ever put pen to paper.
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Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2024
TikTok is a compound word that’s called (take a deep breath) an ablaut-shift reduplication because only the internal vowel changes.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2024
The collection, dubbed with another fun reduplication, Bon Bon, was inspired by the packaging for the Apple AirPods.
—Leilani Marie Labong, SFChronicle.com, 26 June 2018
Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2024
TikTok is a compound word that’s called (take a deep breath) an ablaut-shift reduplication because only the internal vowel changes.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2024
The collection, dubbed with another fun reduplication, Bon Bon, was inspired by the packaging for the Apple AirPods.
—Leilani Marie Labong, SFChronicle.com, 26 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reduplication
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This discovery is one of many cases where fungi alter host behavior to facilitate their own reproduction.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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The body requires manganese for immune function, blood sugar regulation, digestion, reproduction, bone health, blood clotting, antioxidant defense, and many more bodily processes.12 Manganese is found in many plant and animal foods, such as nuts, seeds, seafood, fruit, and beans.—
Jillian Kubala,
Health,
5 Feb. 2025
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The door is covered in a Warhol-like repetition of Socrates faces; the blackboard is framed with more busts of Socrates.—
Christopher Borrelli,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Feb. 2025
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The fundamental elements of African American music were the sounds of enslaved Africans; cries, hollers, call and response, additive rhythms, bent notes, hand-clapping, stomps and constant repetition of rhythmic and melodic phrasing (from which riffs and vamps were derived).—
Ronald E. Scott,
New York Daily News,
1 Feb. 2025
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Atop that challenge was the matter of what would actually be in the film, since Zeppelin footage is as hard to find as someone in the Seventies who didn’t own a copy of Led Zeppelin IV.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
11 Feb. 2025
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Photo: Ron Bull/Getty Images The back image of Book of Lives features a black-and-white photo of Atwood in the ’70s reading a copy of her second novel, Surfacing, which wrestles with national identity and the marginalization of women, both ambient and overt.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
11 Feb. 2025
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For a decade since, that sentiment has played on repeat.—
Dan Wiederer,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Feb. 2025
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This year the Chiefs are aiming for an unprecedented ‘three-peat’ and the game is a repeat of Super Bowl LVII in 2023 when the Chiefs beat the Eagles 38-35 in Glendale, Arizona.—
Eduardo Tansley,
The Athletic,
8 Feb. 2025
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Iran’s military displayed replicas of some of its missiles at the square.—
Nasser Karimi,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Feb. 2025
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Visitors can study Iron Age artifacts from the Caucasus territories, an exact replica of the Gallery in Rome’s Papal Palace and one of the world’s largest collections of paintings from Flemish artists like Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck and Jacob Jordaens.—
Sarah Holzmann,
Smithsonian Magazine,
5 Feb. 2025
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Eddie Murphy, who once rescued Saturday Night Live during a rough patch in the 1980s, rescued a sketch in the show’s 50th anniversary special with a note-perfect imitation of Tracy Morgan.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
16 Feb. 2025
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From frame one, Bob Dylan, the creation, the idea, the trickster, the lone wolf, without attitude or affectation, your Dylan was no imitation.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
12 Feb. 2025
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“Reduplication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reduplication. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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