2. Verb. (third-person singular of repeat) ¹
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Definition of Repeats
1. repeat [v] - See also: repeat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Repeats
Literary usage of Repeats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes of a Busy Life by Joseph Benson Foraker (1916)
"HISTORY repeats ITSELF. HISTORY repeats itself. It has done so pretty fully with
respect to the temperance question in Ohio. Under our first Constitution we ..."
2. Notes of a Busy Life by Joseph Benson Foraker (1916)
"HISTORY repeats ITSELF. HISTORY repeats itself. It has done so pretty fully with
respect to the temperance question in Ohio. Under our first Constitution we ..."
3. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1916)
"It occasionally repeats this plugging, pursuing its way until winter overtakes
it, and pupating within its burrow ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"This law,causes the independent origin not'only of similar genera but of similar
families andw even of our similar orders. Nature thus repeats herself upon ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1826)
"... has already been stated at three us dismissed the challenger with some prudent
advice for his CHAP. conduct in the Turkish warfare; and history repeats ..."
6. Lectures on the Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1857)
"... since in all periods of the world a political revolution is sanctioned in
men's opinions, when it repeats itself. Thus Napoleon was twice defeated, ..."
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