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Example sentences for: tautological
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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.
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.
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.
I also take exception to considering “They gave us a number of donations” as tautological.