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  • s  repetition of same sense in different words
    the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological

  • The English question paper in a competitive exam carried this tautological warning: Answers only in English!
  • While inflating the tyres of her car, Kate saw this tautological freebie offer: Best deals for gas, air is free.
  • First, I'm slightly puzzled about the need to print the word England across the horizontal red stripe: this seems almost tautological, akin to jars of peanut butter that bear the legend: WARNING — THIS PRODUCT MAY CONTAIN NUTS. .
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  • Karl Popper in American Chronicle
    This view brings to mind what Sir Karl Popper wrote in his Unended Quest (Oxford: Rutledge, 1991): "To say that a species now living is adapted to its environment is, in fact, almost tautological : There is hardly any possibility of testing a theory...
  • Amit Chaudhuri in The Nation.
    The assumption, Chaudhuri argued, "is the tautological idea that since India is a huge baggy monster, the novels that accommodate it have to be baggy monsters as well."

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