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pleonastic
adjective
Repetition of same and identical sense with different and non-identical words
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adjective
Repetition of same and identical sense with different and non-identical words
“‘a true fact’ and ‘a free gift’ are pleonastic expressions”
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‘a true fact’ and ‘a free gift’ are pleonastic expressions
The phrase ‘a beginner who has just started’ is tautological
{'source': 'J.B.Conant', 'text': 'at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition'}
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