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Examples of repeating

repeating

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

An oral tradition can and will adapt from one generation to the next, repeating its content in a form more readily accessible to the hearers.
The intuition is that this would prevent the agent from, say, repeating the same question over and over again.
Once the microprocessor design was well underway, it was necessary to avoid changes to the tools which would require repeating earlier work.
By repeating this at different locations in color space, a group of vectors were obtained.
An experimental study of the effects of repeating a verbal message on gesture production.
After repeating the cycle four or five times, the phase residuals between the individual and reference filament data had more or less converged.
By repeating our message frequently and criticizing policies and procedures, we established a record.
As the critics are so fond of repeating, that's what professionalism is there for.
It is the only way for us to avoid repeating such mistakes and to make others aware of theirs.
It also helps us to avoid reinventing the wheel or repeating past mistakes.
One of the motivations for repeating the experiments with cones was that the end effect is automatically removed in axisymmetric flow.
Reliability for total brain, right frontal and left frontal volume measurements was assessed by repeating measurements three times on five randomly selected scans.
Repeating the slightly modified version of a word or phrase (by adding something or using paraphrase) because of uncertainty about its correctness.
Thus, repeating argument with rows replaced by columns, the proof of is complete.
Moreover, the absence of separators between the cells in the headers expresses that those rows or columns are part of the same repeating group.
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