as in repetitive
marked by repetition
at a real trial, repetitious questioning by the attorneys makes the whole affair less than thrilling
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Recent Examples of repetitious
Optimus is a humanoid, bipedal, general-purpose robot created by Tesla that can carry out activities that humans find tedious, repetitious, or hazardous.
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Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
Scenarios play out all the same, filled with repetitious melee take-down animations on loop.
—Kazuma Hashimoto, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
United’s problems have been painfully repetitious, so fix the problems, fix the culture, fix the dressing room and endure the pain that comes with it.
—Andy Mitten, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
Lost among the repetitious Yankees and Mets hot stove babble, is something icy hot.
—Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 21 Dec. 2024
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Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
Scenarios play out all the same, filled with repetitious melee take-down animations on loop.
—Kazuma Hashimoto, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
United’s problems have been painfully repetitious, so fix the problems, fix the culture, fix the dressing room and endure the pain that comes with it.
—Andy Mitten, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
Lost among the repetitious Yankees and Mets hot stove babble, is something icy hot.
—Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 21 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for repetitious
repetitive
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One end of the spectrum are stress fracture, which are very small, often described as hairline fractures that result from repetitive force and pounding to the bone over time.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Given their constraints, the most plausible near-term roles are simple, repetitive, or hazardous tasks in structured spaces, moving totes, staging parts, and monitoring routine operations, where their slower pace or limited dexterity won’t bottleneck the entire line.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Repetitious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repetitious. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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