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REPEATEDLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Several time
Example:
it must be washed repeatedly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
repeated (recurring again and again)
Context examples:
She has heard of you, and would have your opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing which you could do which I had not already done.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A great tumult succeeded for some minutes, during which Miss Miller repeatedly exclaimed, "Silence!" and "Order!"
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The heavyweight planet, which has the mass of 10 Jupiters, has been observed repeatedly, allowing astronomers to accumulate a relatively large trove of data.
(WASP-18b Has Smothering Stratosphere Without Water, NASA)
After he had been through the grammar repeatedly, he took up the dictionary and added twenty words a day to his vocabulary.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The researchers have speculated this upwelling pattern may have occurred repeatedly during the volcanic process that produced the Hawaiian Island chain.
(Scientists report skyrocketing phyotplankton population in aftermath of Kīlauea eruption, Wikinews)
These ripples occur when the brain of a resting mouse or human rapidly and repeatedly replays a recent memory of moving through a space, such as a maze or a house.
(Predicting Alzheimer's-like memory loss before it strikes, National Science Foundation)
And the anxiousness of her spirits directed her eyes towards his figure so repeatedly, as to catch Miss Tilney's notice.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Over 5 days, the scientists repeatedly infused the VTA of susceptible mice with a drug called lamotrigine, which is known to increase excitatory currents.
(Self-tuning neurons promote resilience to stress, depression, NIH)
This new result shows that low levels of methane within Gale Crater repeatedly peak in warm, summer months and drop in the winter every year.
(NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars, NASA)
By the time Cassiar Bar was reached, he was so weak that he was falling repeatedly in the traces.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
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