Synonym: repeat, repeating. Similar words: petition, competition, perfect competition, monopolistic competition, competitive, surreptitious, surreptitiously, practitioner. Meaning: [‚repɪ'tɪʃn] n. 1. an event that repeats 2. the act of doing or performing again 3. the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device.
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91. Mental repetition has been shown by research on basketball players to be as effective as going through the actions.
92. Beethoven may have been the greatest genius of repetition in the history of music.
93. In both instances the allegations against the candidates lacked hard evidence and relied upon repetition through television advertising.
94. The behaviourist approach is repetition and the drilling to the point where the student automatically makes the correct response.
95. On this occasion, sustained state intervention in agriculture ensured that there was to be no repetition of the inter-war years.
96. It is this which makes the performance capable of repetition.
97. Tradition, quite clearly, becomes static repetition without the continuing discrimination of re-creation and re-synthesis on higher levels.
98. Nation-wide, the 1980s have seen downward trends in enrolments,[http://sentencedict.com/repetition.html] and increases in drop-out and repetition rates.
99. So from the first to the second repetition, the subjects' behaviour improved in some respects and deteriorated in others.
100. Over-use of such mediating devices is unwise, especially where they involve direct repetition.
101. The Mozart shown beneath the Chopin has the same form, using repetition and ending with a recall of the first section.
102. Practice is interpreted as repetition, and feedback consists mainly of approving reactions from the teacher.
103. The tag question thus contains, in part, a repetition of some of the information found in the main sentence.
104. On most patients, the repetition by themselves of one word will cause the associated words to suggest themselves.
105. You can avoid this repetition by defining a macro which you use every time you want to include the code.
106. In order to avoid repetition, description and evaluation of these theories is mainly postponed until Chapter 4.
107. What part does repetition play in creating a mood of sorrow, of hopelessness?
108. Again we're using repetition of the same starting phrase in two octaves here.
109. Here the element of change is contained within a repetition of the original phrase idea.
110. Then off with the chaconne she went, gathering force with each repetition of its harmonic pattern.
111. The Symbolic order assures him he can maintain his self through the repetition of positions first established in the Oedipus complex.
112. The best he could do to simulate this pause for reflection, was to use repetition at certain points.
113. Numerous witnesses for the prosecution followed each other with almost boring repetition into the box.
114. His inspiration fell on fertile ground, prepared by endless repetition.
115. His parents, perplexed by this endless repetition, thought it meant that he was unable to get anything right.
116. After what happened here on April 15, 1989, the authorities were going to make sure there was no repetition.
117. In this way, the repetition may achieve extra contextual effects by modifying the propositional form of the utterance.
118. Last autumn's riots against President Mobutu saw a repetition of this panic.
119. The two necessary conditions of contiguity and repetition apply but the procedure is different.
120. In summary, therefore, most special aftercare services have had no effect on repetition rates after attempted suicide.
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