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adjective

ri-ˈpē-təd How to pronounce repeated (audio)
Definition of repeatednext
as in frequent
appearing or occurring repeatedly from time to time made repeated attempts to get in touch with her

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repeated

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verb

past tense of repeat
1
as in reiterated
to say or state again I repeated the address over and over until I had it memorized

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2
as in recited
to give from memory repeated correctly all the verses she had memorized

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3
as in echoed
to say after another now repeat the oath after me

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4
as in replicated
to make or do again try not to repeat your mistakes

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Recent Examples of repeated
Adjective
Authenticity is built through small, repeated alignments, not dramatic declarations. — Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026 To address the challenge, Ursa Major aims to normalize repeated use, which could significantly reduce per-flight costs and increase flight rates. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 30 Apr. 2026
Verb
If the model fails to follow an instruction halfway through the process, portions of that sequence may have to be repeated. — Nicole Casperson, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 One alcoholic drink followed by one non-alcoholic round, repeated through the evening. — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 11 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for repeated
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repeated
  1. frequent
  2. reiterated
  3. recited
  4. echoed
  5. replicated
  6. periodic
  7. chimed
  8. memorized
Adjective
  • Culturelle probiotics tend to be cheaper than Align products and are ideal for those with frequent diarrhea.
    — BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Branch staff and similar roles remained fully in-person along with jobs involving frequent travel or client meetings, while senior leadership was expected to continue working consistently from the office.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of frequent
Verb
  • Thai schoolchildren returned to their classrooms on Monday, some going through metal detectors and other checks, as Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul reiterated his intention to tighten gun controls in the wake of Friday’s school shooting.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2026
  • El Sayed reiterated his claim that the president and first lady don’t truly love each other.
    — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of reiterated
Verb
  • Enslaved people recited his poetry at posh parties thrown by their masters.
    — John Blake, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
  • By noon, Taylor recited a dozen names of people from Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela who failed to show up.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of recited
Verb
  • Sheldon echoed many commenters who said the safety of his children should not be treated as an extension of a debate about their father's career.
    — Krystie Lee Yandoli, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Judge Martinez-Olguin echoed those concerns in her ruling, noting that the new legal services agreements appeared to cover only a fraction of the services needed and failed to explain how compliance would be monitored.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of echoed
Verb
  • Bryan Schreier, a partner at Sequoia (which led Zum’s 2017 Series A), says another of Zum’s big value propositions is that it cannot be replicated by an Uber, Lyft or even OpenAI.
    — Maggie McGrath, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Everything the city has done, transit activists say, can be replicated elsewhere.
    — Cameron Pugh, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of replicated
Adjective
  • This meteor shower is known for being plentiful and is part of the debris stream of the periodic comet Swift-Tuttle, which takes 133 years to orbit the Sun.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026
  • After methodically growing its business over nearly three decades and doing periodic tuck-in acquisitions, Lionsgate has assembled 20,000 film and TV titles in its library, which topped $1 billion in revenue in the most recent fiscal year.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of periodic
Verb
  • Sunlight chimed off Rubber Hand’s hatchet blade.
    — Will Mackin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
  • In 1859, Big Ben, the great bell inside the famous London clock tower, chimed for the first time.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 June 2026
Definition of chimed
Verb
  • Others are employing the old-fashioned strategy deployed by their parents, strutting up to storefronts with resume in hand and elevator pitch memorized.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2026
  • For all the public, open source repos where most of the benchmarks are run, every single model has basically memorized the repo.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 20 July 2026
Definition of memorized

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