tautology

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Recent Examples of tautology Yes, a win is a win, but tautologies aside, for the Niners, a win with Purdy playing like one of the finest quarterbacks in the NFL on Sunday would speak volumes. Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024 In this tautology, the act of spending is proof that the spending is justified. Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2024 The goal was to market something in every category, which led to the occasional tautology. Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 22 Aug. 2024 In other words, the industry is asking the world to engage in something like a trillion-dollar tautology: AI’s world-transformative potential justifies spending any amount of resources, because its evangelists will spend any amount to make AI transform the world. Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 29 July 2024 In his world view, doomed romanticism isn’t an oxymoron but a tautology: to experience love deep within one’s bones comes at the cost of one’s earthly comforts and worldly aspirations, even one’s life. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2024 At first, the subjective theory might be misunderstood as a tautology – market goods are worth what people will pay for them. Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024 Too often, analysts of these anticorruption drives fall into a tautology, assuming that anyone purged for graft by an autocrat must have been an enemy of the autocrat to begin with—otherwise, why would they have been purged? Andrew Leber, Foreign Affairs, 15 Nov. 2017 Which is a tautology. Patrick Skerrett, STAT, 3 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tautology
Noun
  • Relationships need repetition and structure to grow.
    Serena Dai, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Rather, these freelancing skills are developed through repetition and practice, and through learning from and watching the habits of other freelancers who've made it to the pinnacles of their careers.
    Rachel Wells, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Yankee fans long ago stopped buying into Boone’s hyperbole.
    Chris Kirschner, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
  • That rhetoric, some of which rises to the level of hyperbole, is not particularly helpful in focusing on the precise legal issues to be decided in the present case.
    Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The sweeping changes aim to leverage Nine’s premium media assets while reducing operational redundancies.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Ensuring data redundancy—storing backup copies in different locations—helps protect against system failures, cyberattacks or accidental deletions.
    Ari Jacoby, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025

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“Tautology.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tautology. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.

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