as in repetitive
marked by repetition
duplicative efforts in this area that are just a waste of time
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Recent Examples of duplicative
There are also concerns that CIISA’s work is duplicative of standards already in place across the industry.
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Jake Kanter, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
Logging everything, all the time, creates massive volumes of low-context, duplicative or irrelevant data.
—Bill Hineline, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
This could eliminate duplicative efforts and speed up multinational drug approvals.
—Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
The three-year, government-wide redesign effort could fundamentally change how citizens access federal services while potentially saving taxpayers millions in duplicative design costs.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Aug. 2025
At the time of final approval, Angeion was still working through approximately 28 million claims, verifying which claims were valid and throwing out fraudulent or duplicative ones.
—Alix Martichoux, The Hill, 14 Aug. 2025
Jake Kanter, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
Logging everything, all the time, creates massive volumes of low-context, duplicative or irrelevant data.
—Bill Hineline, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
This could eliminate duplicative efforts and speed up multinational drug approvals.
—Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
The three-year, government-wide redesign effort could fundamentally change how citizens access federal services while potentially saving taxpayers millions in duplicative design costs.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Aug. 2025
At the time of final approval, Angeion was still working through approximately 28 million claims, verifying which claims were valid and throwing out fraudulent or duplicative ones.
—Alix Martichoux, The Hill, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for duplicative
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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“Duplicative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duplicative. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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