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In some types of writing, repeated use of said is considered tedious, and writers are encouraged to employ synonyms. On Wikipedia, it is more important to avoid language that makes undue implications. Said, stated, described, wrote, commented, and according to are almost always neutral and accurate.
Déjà vu (/ ˌ d eɪ ʒ ɑː ˈ v (j) uː / ⓘ [1] [2] DAY-zhah-VOO, - VEW, French: [deʒa vy] ⓘ; "already seen") is the phenomenon of feeling as though one has lived through the present situation before.
In literary criticism and rhetoric, a tautology is a statement that repeats an idea using near-synonymous morphemes, words or phrases, effectively "saying the same thing twice".
"As is" is a phrase used to indicate the existing condition of something without any modifications or improvements. [1] The term is employed in legal, business, and consumer settings to establish that an item or property is being sold or provided in its current condition, [2] [3] with no warranties or guarantees regarding its quality.
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague, What's Montague? It is not hand nor foot, Nor arm nor face. O be some other name, belonging to a man! What's in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other word would smell as sweet. Malone reasoned that the awkward half-line of "belonging to a man" could be reconnected into verse through correction ...
As with cognate objects, these constructions are not redundant because the repeated words or derivatives cannot be removed without removing meaning or even destroying the sentence, though in most cases they could be replaced with non-related synonyms at the cost of style (e.g., compare "The only thing we have to fear is terror".)
A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous. The standard test for synonymy is substitution: one form can be ...