endless repetition

collocation in English

meaningsofendlessandrepetition

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endless
adjective
uk
/ˈend.ləs/us
/ˈend.ləs/
never finishing, or seeming never ...
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repetition
noun
uk
/ˌrep.ɪˈtɪʃ.ən/us
/ˌrep.əˈtɪʃ.ən/
the act of doing or saying ...
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(Definition ofendlessandrepetitionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This explains theendlessrepetitionof the fan's reinvestment.
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Secondly, basing the judgement of artistic quality on political criteria had resulted in theendlessrepetitionof a limited number of standardised artistic themes.
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Sometimes such a communication assumes the form of well-controlled randomness; sometimes it produces anendlessrepetitionof micro-changes.
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What he means by this is theendlessrepetitionof individual sub-plots by different characters in slightly different contexts.
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Learners have no choice but to go through the monotonous process of memorising the irregular verbs throughendlessrepetitionexercises.
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However, there is a risk that for some people 'rehearsing' orendlessrepetitionof their grief out loud may just be like a form of unhealthy rumination.
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Accordingly, the institution of law promotes itself as a practice-based discipline; one that is both taught and learned through theendlessrepetitionof doctrine and reasoning.
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The myth has been cultivated very carefully byendlessrepetition.
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Then there is theendlessrepetitionof the words "modern"and"modernise", which several speakers have already remarked upon.
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On this point alone it would beendlessrepetitionfor me to go into all the details.
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I wish to show that there isendlessrepetitionin these documents.
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This story will not bearendlessrepetition, although it repeated itself after the war.
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The two or three valid points could have been made, it seemed to me, within an hour or so, but there wasendlessrepetition.
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He must speak to the substance of his new clause, not indulge inendlessrepetition.
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Maybe it is inseparable from industrialisation, or, at any rate, from the specialisation, theendlessrepetitionof boring jobs, which necessarily go with industrialisation.
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I want to say three things about the future, because there is a danger ofendlessrepetitionof the same themes.
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There cannot beendlessrepetitionof the same point.
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Third, there is theendlessrepetitionof similar arguments by third parties, usually the public, but including at times local authorities and pressure groups.
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However, it bearsendlessrepetition.
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Labour's economic policy simply amounts to almostendlessrepetitionand repackaging and the re-announcement of bits of public expenditure.
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