as in to repeat
to say or state again
no matter how many times I iterate that this so-called prank is a bad idea, no one listens
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Smart made the original urban two-seater – the Fortwo, which measured less than 9 feet (2.7 m) in length – all the way back in 1998, and iterated its design and features over the years.
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Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2025
From the current version of it, anyway: The company plans to continue iterating with Starship, which checked all of its boxes during its 10th-ever test flight on Tuesday evening.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Software can be shipped, iterated, and upgraded constantly.
—Matt Rogers, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
So our management team iterated on [a new strategy] to harden our thinking.
—Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2025
From the current version of it, anyway: The company plans to continue iterating with Starship, which checked all of its boxes during its 10th-ever test flight on Tuesday evening.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Software can be shipped, iterated, and upgraded constantly.
—Matt Rogers, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
So our management team iterated on [a new strategy] to harden our thinking.
—Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for iterate
repeat
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Robots also offer consistency, repeating trials with no fatigue or variation.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Sep. 2025
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But even more meaningful was the opportunity to have conversations that weren’t premised on the idea that Zohran had a hard ceiling in this race, something journalists and editors from more establishment outlets repeated ad nauseam until the final days of the primary.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Iterate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/iterate. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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