Example sentences for: tautological

How can you use “tautological” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He caricatures it briefly, calls it "banal" and "tautological," and cites its influence on mainstream economics as further evidence of the corruption of the academy.

  • Once the provenance of hype has been established, you can discard Murphy's elaborate apparatus for explaining overhyped . That ghastly neologism is just the latest example of the peculiar American tendency toward tautological idioms.

  • But this is tautological: Any group selected on the basis of scores on mental tests will be composed disproportionately of people who score high on mental tests.

  • Other quizzes “test” the knowledge of the reader's knowledge of gay, black, or carnival slang, of the origins of certain words ( topaz matches up with “Greek for `conjecture' because they could only guess where it came from”), some of tautological clichés (like beck and --), others of nautical jargon, euphemisms, numerical allusions, Yankee dialect, and so forth.

  • Brian Davis's letter in VERBATIM [XX,4] was very interesting and dealt with a sad and serious situation in present-day use of the English language, viz., tautological modes of expression.


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